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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It is not only the blush of indignation but the blush of shame that should come to our faces, when, looking over the register in the college library, we see boldly written upon its pages, without the slightest attempt at imitation, the ostensible signature of a celebrity, who has not visited Harvard College...
...attempt was made by the undergraduates of Vassar to introduce the wearing of the cap and gown. The faculty, however, nipped the scheme...
With reference to the second charge, it is sufficient to say that no foot-ball game was at any time last fall arranged between Harvard and Williams. An attempt was made to arrange one, but no date could be agreed upon. On Oct. 11, the manager of the Williams eleven, in reply to a communication from Harvard, telegraphed that the Wednesdays and Saturdays from Oct. 16 to Nov. 20 were filled. The game with Yale was played Oct. 23, twelve days after this telegram was sent...
...place where it originates. Utilitarian morals and intuitive methods supersede abstract ethics and deductive principles when the thinker is thrown into the whirl of a great city. There is much talk now-a-days about making university studies practical and no doubt there is much wisdom in the attempt, but bookishness has its uses and if it is not to be fostered in the colleges, it will not be fostered anywhere, and will disappear forever. That would be an evil. Four years of isolation at college is not to be desired; but Harvard, we believe, gains in being...
...attempt is being made to get Montague, Bishop's rival mind reader, to give a performance in Princeton...