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...traversed, the transparencies and the nine took up their position upon the steps of University, where cheers for Harvard, the individual players, the classes, the games, and especially for '89 were indulged in for some time. The meeting in the yard then broke up, and a huge bon-fire was started on Jarvis, which was still smouldering at the time of going to to press. The whole celebration was conducted in a most orderly way, and great credit is due the freshman for the moderation displayed...
Yale held a grand celebration over its victory over Princeton day before yesterday. The students marched around the campus, nine hundred strong and erected a huge bon-fire of tar barrels...
...publish in another column a letter from a member of the faculty concerning the question of order in the yard, which ought now to occupy the mind of every student. The present state of affairs cannot continue. The building of surreptitious bon-fires at hours when none but the perpetrators can enjoy the noble sport, is conduct which is certainly worthy of the highest commendation and admiration, but it must necessarily fail to meet the craving of the college at large for an opportunity to relieve the excited emotions. Therefore, as a method of celebration, it may be safely considered...
...feel compelled to censure any proceeding upon the part of the students which will tend to endanger college property. There is little doubt but that the indiscriminate building of fires will have this result. The question which now remains to be solved is, whether the students are to have bon-fires at all. The fact that a celebration can be enthusiastic without a bon-fire, is well proved by the experience of many former years, during which no thought of building one was entertained. The fact that no regular yard committee is now in existence afforded last night an opportunity...
...mandates which from time to time have been issued by the faculty have done little, except to arouse opposition, and to excite in the more turbulent students a desire to circumvent the issuers of these prohibitory proclamations. As a result, bon-fires have been kindled in dangerous places in the yard, cannon-crackers have been placed even under the proctors' windows, and the disturbance has been continued until almost morning. Should these manifestos be repealed and the entire control of celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think...