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Ever since that affair of three months ago took place, in which a couple of students and several police figured largely, I have been acting the part of a private detective, so to speak, and have endeavored, by probing the matter to the bottom, to find out the true cause thereof. After careful research, aided by a little personal experience with the "limbs of the law," I have come to the following conclusion...
...afternoon when the sun shines and the wind does not blow heavily, the boat-houses and the river present a scene of animation which, two years ago, it would have seemed folly to predict. The oldest inhabitant cannot remember the time when the interest in athletics here reached anything like its present height, and this increased interest is not confined to any one pursuit. Never before was so much general interest shown in Boating, but, at the same time, the Foot-Ball Eleven were never in such a prosperous condition, and, according to the wiseacres, we have not been represented...
...evidence offered showed clearly that our original color was certainly not Magenta; and the appearance and words of the man who caused all the trouble by buying, ten years ago, for the University crew the nearest shade he could get to crimson completely silenced the sceptics. This change, or rather restoration, of the color of the University suggests the question whether the paper which bears the name of the discarded hue will cling to, or renounce, that name. Before our next issue that question will probably have been decided, and the result of the decision will be announced. But, under...
...Faculty," Professor Anderson replied. He said that he noticed now a much greater difference in undergraduates than existed ten years ago, and he remarked that the Faculty, although it might have the appearance of a body possessing great "solidarity," was nevertheless made up of individual members, who differed almost as much as undergraduates. He exhorted us to try and remember, when we were startled by some unexpected decree which it seemed impossible for sane men to pass, - to try and remember whether the lights burned long in University on the night when that awful edict went forth, and to infer...
...claim to be either father or wet-nurse of the Magenta, he nevertheless considered that he had done something to bring it into existence by pointing out in the Williams Review the field for a new paper at Harvard. He concluded by reading a poem which appeared some time ago in the Advocate, and which described himself as the editor of the Review in terms not quite complimentary...