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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The present system of advertising "tutoring" has of late developed a new phase. Some of our young men, not content with the prominence of the CRIMSON and the numerous bulletin boards, have taken the liberty to send cards to individual members...
...sidedness of life and its occupations. He will find himself surrounded by such a mass of things which by some desire he is impelled to do, that the truth is soon forced upon him that he cannot hope to accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given us, "Choose!" Some of us want to take so many...
...industry of certain undergraduate reporters for the Boston dailies. We have often spoken of the untrustworthy accounts of college matters which come out in these papers, and have urged that more care be taken in the future; but mere remonstrance has no effect. Some of these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying...
...that it now has a pleasant southerly exposure), hall, floor, and end exposure were the chief considerations in ranking the rooms. A redistribution took place every year and the system depended on the general principle that if a man had a good room one year, he must be content with an inferior one the next. The choice was made by classes, beginning with the seniors, the man who had occupied the most undesirable room the year before being allowed to choose first, and so on; those who had particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft...
...content with one really excellent crew, the sophomores have followed the example of the juniors and put a second crew into training. It is rowing as follows: stroke, C. H. Baldwin, 153; 7, E. L. Blossom, 156; 6, E. C. Stowell, 159; 5, C. S. Hervey, 160. This incomplete eight is working into good form, and it is possible that some of its members may be called to seats in the class boat. Altogether, '88 has an excellent chance for a place in the class races this spring. - Record...