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...Lampoon added to the zest of yesterday's CRIMSON initiation by incarcerating several candidates within the Mt. Auburn street tomb, and keeping them there for a few hours during the afternoon. The candidates reported a very decent time. Their hosts were considerate, serving tea and toast, and making every effort to be agreeable...
...class smokers, held in the Union, are dangerous hotbeds of vice. One upright young man has urged that beer be abandoned. He is right. Another is opposed to tobacco. It should be tabooed. The CRIMSON thinks conversation should also be prohibited as it leads to gossip and stories no decent boy should listen to. We urge all the fellows to do something about this. Let everyone do his duty for the honor of the University...
...open to Harvard undergraduates, the student can go as fast and as far as he pleases. To this there is one notable exception in the case of English Composition, perhaps the most fundamental and yet the most alighted study of the curriculum. Granting that the elements of grammar and decent writing can be learned only in the home and graded schools, there still remains a field for development of the ability to write the English language well which it is the duty of the college to cultivate. There are steps in the teaching of English as important...
...made by petitions signed by 35 members of the class. Also the elections will be held under the Australian ballot system at the Lodge of the 1877 Gate. Thus, not only will the voters have an opportunity to consider, propose and finally elect the best men, but a decent formality will be given a hitherto slap-dash election...
...himself born; there are but few men who can explain that rationally. When you are born, it becomes important to ask why. If you say you came to college in order to get a degree, it seems like saying you were born in order to get a decent funeral--you leave out all the interests of life coming between the birth and the grave...