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...Yale News makes objection in an editorial to the base-ball grounds at Providence on which the college games with Brown are played, The complaint of the News is undoubtedly just. Leaving aside the question as to whether one side or the other is benefitted by these grounds, it must be said that they are totally unfit for championship games. The in-field is very good, but there is no out-field at all worth mentioning. The right field is a steep hill, centre field is occupied by a church, nor is the left field as large as it ought...
...support, nor justify them in giving more frequent exhibitions. We think they are wrong, as the college at large would be only too glad to show its approval of their efforts if it lay in its power, although it has never urged the matter. We have not spoken in complaint of the conduct of the Glee Club, nor of the Sodality, but because we hope in the future to enjoy more of their music, and show how fully we would sustain them...
...Bartlett wishes the students to understand that he cannot post up ball game scores unless they stop crowding the walk in front of his store, as complaint has been made. Scores are posted as soon as received; if not in view there is no news...
...seniors have received the list of rooms for which they can apply at Harvard. The complaint seems to be general that the list is a poor one to select from. It would seem that a new hall is needed very much, as there are only about seventy-five rooms, and one hundred and fifty fellows to draw for. - [Exonian...
...deficiency of our subscription list has made it convenient to our publisher, that the present number be the last of the HARVARD LYCEUM . . .After the laborious exertions of nine months, such a conclusion is a mortifying recompense for the devotion of time, and the pains of composition." They make complaint also of the opposition they have met from envious associates and say: "In a place too where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, we have witnessed the ineffectual and contemptible emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself a foe to its literary...