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...CRIMSON editor had been correct about the time $195.01 would have been enormous wages for an engineer. As a matter of fact we had the engineer from May 6th to July 6th inclusive. For a good man for a short job you must pay good wages. It is the poorest sort of economy, with a complicated Herreschoff engine, to engage a second rate engineer. As a matter of economy I should advise hiring the best man to be had, even if were necessary to pay him half as much again as we paid our engineer last spring...
...wish to try for coxswain for the freshman crew will meet at 30 Read's Block at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. All candidates bring their correct weight when stripped...
...graduate committee, made full explanation for any additional expense in that direction. As regards wages paid the engineer, the writer has made a little mistake in his term of service. If he had put it at three months instead of three weeks, he would have been more nearly correct...
...fact that the college works with so many hands and covers so much ground is what keeps her so wretchedly poor. For, to suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I am inclined to think that the statement in one of your late issues, that Harvard has never beaten Yale at the Rugby game, was not wholly correct. Twelve years ago, in the fall of 1875, if I remember rightly, the Yale students who had for several years successfully played against Princeton and Columbia, the old-fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from...