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...letter has been received from Harvard acknowledging Yale's challenge, but no definite answer was returned, inasmuch as time is required in which to discuss the conditions of next year's race.-[Courant...
...college, who inquired the cause of the disturbance in his room the preceding evening. The freshman narrated the circumstances of the case very minutely, and the president listened with the greatest attention. When the freshman had finished, the president said, "And you cleaned them out?" "Yes," was the answer. "I congratulate you upon your success," said the president as he took the boy's hand and gave it a hearty shake...
...review of an extended history of Bowdoin College, which has just been published, the Advertiser says: "Such a history as that of Bowdoin is an answer to the inquiry raised not seldom, What end is answered by a country college? The consolidation of the smaller institutions, though they have lived long and honorably, with the colleges whose wealth and high fame command the patronage of the country, is lightly urged. There are cheap colleges by the dozen in America, some of them not worth consolidating with any reputable institution. But New England country colleges, like Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst...
...question why this is so, we can only answer that so far as we are aware this custom has always existed at Harvard, and it does not seem probable that it will change. The names of the editors of Harvard papers are, however, usually published at either the end or beginning of each volume issued, and they also appear annually in the Harvard Index. The custom certainly has its advantages; and undoubtedly it is in accordance with the general sentiment of the college in such matters...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD; Allow me to answer some questions that seem to rise in many minds apropos of the article on Memorial Hall in the last number of the Advocate. There was not "on Monday evening any supply of food unfit to be eaten found on the point of being cooked." Neither was there a discovery of food of any description, cooked or uncooked, that was at all in the nature of a "revelation," and most certainly not a "disgusting revelation." On account of no such "revelation," then, is Mr. Balch "an unfit man to be entrusted with the management...