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...correspondence column of the last number of the Advocate, I noticed a letter from a Freshman, who justly complained that in my report of the subscriptions to the H. U. B. C., only eight dollars had been paid by his class, whereas he himself had paid ten dollars to some person whom he thought authorized to receive it. In answer to this, I should like to say that the account was made out before the publication of the catalogue, and therefore some unavoidable mistakes were made in separating the names according to classes. In looking over the list again...
...wish to call attention to a statement concerning the Reading-Room, which appears in another column. The Reading-Room Association has been a blessing to a great many students during the past five or six years, and it would be so to a great many more, if they would only subscribe and get into the habit of going there. To many the Reading-Room is known only from the fact of their having seen papers hanging on the walls of Lower Massachusetts during an examination. By the payment of a trifling fee, any one obtains the right...
...sharper than a serpent's tooth"! See what returns the Advocate gets for its kindness and condescension: "The Advocate of October 5th fills up about a column and a half of itself from our last issue. If it would be any convenience, we will send up the type next time." - Yale Courant...
...publish in another column a list of students' letters remaining in the office. The postman urges the necessity of sending in addresses immediately, in order to insure prompt delivery of mail; unless students do this, they have no right to complain that their mail fails to reach them...
...graduate of Harvard, and he got a position on one of the Philadelphia dailies last week. 'Cut that stuff of yours down,' said the city editor as the new man came in with a column where a stick only was required. 'Do you desire a judicious elimination of the superfluous phraseology?' mildly returned the Harvard man. 'No! Boil it down!' thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now, - gone back to Boston. He says there ain't 'cultuah' enough in Philadelphia...