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THAT exasperating puzzle, the Tabular View, has lately become the means of a very profitable business venture. Leaving out of account the sums that Freshmen volunteer to pay for the gilded sheets, the amount received from advertisers must be considerable. Let no one, however, be so far tempted by this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

We do not object to a man's making a spy-glass of his breast; but when the alternative is that it "undulate afloat on soundless depths," we beg leave to advise any man, in view of such a calamity, to spread his sails rather than fold them, especially if...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our exchanges. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

MUCH attention has been called, during the past eight or ten months, on the part of the newspapers, to the changes in agitation at Harvard. Some have censured, some approved, the liberality of the University Officers in taking such bold steps toward their universally accorded aim, a University system similar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR REFORMS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

The mass of reformation so published and criticised, when sifted down, appears most sorry in dimensions. The greatest reform we have been guilty of is the dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR REFORMS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Those who object to this custom of supporting a paper in college urge that what time is spent in writing the spicy article or in discussing college topics could better be spent over Greek plays or on the Merovingian dynasty. While no one can doubt the propriety of doing the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITING FOR COLLEGE PAPERS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »