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...hopeless resignation it counsels, or seems to counsel. Harvard, as far as I know is the only institution of the kind, which sets up its back, and despotically proclaims "one day only as a Thanksgiving holiday." It looks to me a mere act of caprice, an old womanish attempt of the college to make itself talked about...
...attempt will be made this year to have each man attain the full bodily development of which he is capable. To this end the exercise will not as in former years, be limited to rowing and during a few months the work at the chest weights and running; but throughout the year each man will be expected to exercise that part of his body or those muscles which are weakest. If a man is not strong in the arms dumb bell work is prescribed, or if he is weak in the back, certain movements in bending every day will...
This scene is doubtless repeated every year. Every Freshman class has to be awakened to the sad truth, is at first surprised, then indignant, and perhaps at last, in many cases, rebellious. The upper classes after having made various attempts; with complaints and petitions, have become resigned. They recognize the fact that legally recitations cease the afternoon before, and begin the morning after Thanksgiving day, and suit their actions accordingly,- which means that most of them go home, stay over Sunday, and come back only to hear of small audiences in chapel, and of the numbers attending recitations being...
Neither side is satisfied with the result; a second rush is inevitable, The Sophomores take up their line of march for Old Cambridge, this time keeping in closer ranks. Before Beck Hall is reached they take their stand on the sidewalk, and as the Freshmen come up an attempt is made to dislodge them. At first '88 seems to have the advantage, for she has rushed up against a fence which creaks and groans and finally gives way, sending head over heels several Juniors who had taken a position there to watch the fight. '87 and '88 are thrown into...
...said, the Committee on Athletics propose to make any important changes, we trust that they will give us notice of them in a frank, open way. More than this, we trust that they will not attempt to take any position from which they will be compelled to retire. If the Committee will state definitely what they intend to do, and will take a manly stand in the matter, we can assure them of the hearty support of the undergraduate sentiment in the college, and that they are doing their best to solve a very complex problem. If this sentiment meets...