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...Secretary requests a prompt reply, as his action may be governed by the answers he receives...

Author: By Class Secretary., | Title: Epigram. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...both will overwork themselves and injure their health. We cannot see how the former privilege could injure a student or the standard of scholarship in the College, and we should like to urge upon the Faculty to reconsider this step, and unless there is a cogent reason for their action, to restore a liberty which does not seem to have been abused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...action of a member of the Faculty in preventing recently the Sophomore societies from performing parts of their usual initiation, calls for some comment, we think. It has been the custom of these societies for years to shout out in the Delta the names of the first ten elected from the Freshman class, and then, forming in procession, to march through the Yard singing. That the singing is not as rich in harmony as it is in volume is a lamentable fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...action of the Association in offering to send men to the Intercollegiate games at Mott Haven has had the effect of inducing men to train who would not otherwise have done so; yet it is a cause of great regret that announcement of its intentions was not made earlier by the Association. This could not well be, however, for the difficulty of getting a track near the college appeared insurmountable. It was useless to talk of Jarvis Field for this season; in fact, we may consider ourselves fortunate if we are allowed to use it at all next autumn. Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

ATHLETICS.IT is comforting, in these trying times of Lawn Tennis and utter indifference to all things athletic, to see that there are still a few men in college who have the energy and courage to train for and enter in athletic sports outside the college. The action of Mr. Simmons, '80, in entering and starting in the mile-race at the Y. M. C. A. sports held in the Music Hall, as a representative of this college, is worthy of all praise and imitation. Messrs. Cushing, '78, and Benham, '81, entered in the fencing contest, which Mr. Benham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »