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...public have not yet been able to discover just how much an intercollegiate award means; for to know that a student from one college surpassed the students from several other colleges is very indefinite information. Why cannot the association publish its examination papers, and in this way furnish some data from which the value of its awards may be inferred...
...granted that their action was influenced by the supposed desire of the students not to have the change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring out a vote on this two-sided question. I can readily understand that there are men - not "bummers" or "society men," but good students - whose habits of study lead them to carry it far into the night, and who therefore consider...
...Dick, and Harry, their occupation and most private concerns, which are to be entered from time to time on the spaces left after the "Lives"; and thus the future Historian of the College, writing a continuation of Mr. Sibley's interesting book on Harvard graduates, will find abundant data for his biographies...
...treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims of misplaced confidence. If the present graduating class should give up the old plan and adopt one similar to that proposed, its class-book might contain considerable valuable data, and not be a treasury of trash and nonsense...
...regard to the nomenclature of mountains where the same eminences were known by different names or one or more mountains by the same name, in making unfrequented peaks more accessible, in preserving sketches and profiles of the mountains as seen from different points, in collecting maps and other data, and eventually in publishing important results which might be reached. We earnestly hope that this plan will be successful, and that our college exquisites may thereby be induced to pass their vacations in some more manly way than in dangling about the billiard-rooms and ball-rooms of summer caravansaries...