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While we cannot congratulate ourselves very heartily on the playing, yet we certainly have no reason for serious complaint. At present, it is naturally impossible to form any just estimation of the team. Nor was the opposing team of sufficient strength to enable us to judge of our prospects in the games with Yale and Princeton. But there is no cause for dissatisfaction, and that is gratifying at so early a date...
...sure that the Overseers have hit upon the surest way to abolish the evils which undoubtedly have existed and may still exist in the society. A writer in the current issue of the Monthly has clearly stated the futility of any attempt to legislate away the evils of which complaint is made. The only sure way to control them is through student opinion. This force has already accomplished considerable in the D. K. E. The better men in the society have steadily worked for its improvement. Years ago they succeeded in making the branding at the initiation optional, and before...
There is some complaint that the ringing of the bell for Vespers is not of the sort to attract attention. If one happens to be busy or some little distance from the Yard the sound of the bell does not reach one. Men who hardly ever missed a service last year have missed all but one or two this year. The attendance at these services, which for several years have been the most popular of all our religious services, has certainly fallen off this year. The decrease in attendance seems to be among the college men, and if this...
...Thoughts Suggested by Lowell's 'Cambridge Thirty Years Ago' " quotes some of Lowell's thoughts on old Cambridge and answers his complaint "that the picturesque old characters have disappeared" by asking if Old John, Billy the postman, Mrs. Belcher, and Mr. Foster are not filling the same niches of fame today that Lewis, and other beloved old worthies did in Lowell's days...
...seem out of place to take up again at the beginning of another year the old complaint of behavior of students in the class room. In Geology IV, when the steropticon is used, and the room consequently darkened, an excellent chance is given to the children in the course to cough, chuckle, stamp and whistle, and this chance was used to good advantage in the last lecture, to the discomfort of the instructor and others. As this course is opened to the entire college, it is unquestionable that the disturbance is caused chiefly by freshmen. Upper class men have come...