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...Advocate's wholesale abuse of the steward is entirely uncalled for. The corporation would have dismissed Mr. Balch long ago if they had not known that they could get no better man to fill his place...
Some of the rules respecting the subordination of the freshmen to the members of the higher classes which were in vogue a hundred years ago are most quaint. At Harvard College in the last century no freshman was allowed to "speak to a senior with his hat on, or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." And every freshman, with an occasional exception, was obliged to serve as errand-boy for "any of his seniors, graduates or undergraduates, at any time, except in studying hours or after nine o'clock...
...bright wit and keen sense of humor of that eminent and well-known comedian, Wm. Warren, of the Museum company, is the following: Mr. Fred Vinton, Boston's promising young portrait painter, and a personal friend of the comedian's, on his return from Spain a few days ago met Mr. Warren in the Parker House, and said, as they were speaking of the plays then in progress, "By the way, Mr. Warren, while I was in New York I went to see Jefferson as Bob Acres in the 'Rivals.' Jefferson himself was, of course, as good as ever...
...courses of study forty years ago...
...news and articles. There is reproduced in this number that very amusing and well illustrated account of a tour made by the representatives of some seven or eight Massachusetts bicycle clubs around Boston, entitled "A Wheel around the Hub," which many will remember was brought out about two years ago in Scribner's. In the next issue a history of the above-mentioned article will be given, with a sketch of each one who participated...