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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There have appeared in your columns two communications criticising, in view of the price of board charged on the term bills, the conduct of the Dining Association. It is not long ago that the practice of publishing the term-bill price of board began. Members used to be left to ascertain it from the bursar's bills, and few of them knew, even then, the exact number of weeks for the computation. I do not mean to imply that the price used to be concealed in order to cover up the affairs of the association; there...
...reaching are to be the final effects of the plan that was first tried some years ago by the university, of holding entrance examinations at other cities, and particularly Western cities, are probably not often fully appreciated by Harvard men. It is true that no very marked effects have yet been felt from this policy, but any immediate increase of the influx of students to Harvard from these cities and the adjoining country is not to be expected. The adoption of the same plan by Yale, and more lately by some of the smaller New England colleges, has naturally acted...
...Crimson suggests that the single scull races of a few years ago be revived. There are several men in college at present who are excellent oarsmen, and who would probably go into the race if the matter was put before them in a proper light. Besides this, the re-establishing of the custom would undoubtedly draw out many new men who might eventually become good candidates for the crews...
...Oxford-Cambridge race on Thursday resulted about as the betting men had expected earlier in the year. Several months ago the odds were largely in favor of Oxford, as the crew seemed to be definitely settled upon, while the Cambridge boat was occupied by different men almost every week. Even after the eight had been determined upon by Cambridge, their positions were not fixed until a short time ago. But Cambridge improved rapidly in form after the crew was settled in their positions, and this fact, added to their superior weight, gave their backers considerable encouragement. The Oxford crew found...
Plagiarism is rampant. The Columbia Spectator, in its last issue, in a scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...