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DEAR GEORGE, - You will doubtless be greatly surprised to learn from this letter that Harvard, after being defeated at the oar for one hundred consecutive years, has at length won a boat-race! Although almost paralyzed with joy at this unexpected event, I will endeavor to narrate as coherently as possible the circumstances which led to our glorious victory...
...unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean's office for being half an hour late with his second theme. Occasional examinations are, doubtless, a great preventive of cramming; but if forty examinations besides the "goes" are to be given, the Junior Class of '75 will become extinct...
...wonderful diligence lately shown by the Juniors in studying the Old Testament is doubtless traceable to the recent abatement of Sunday morning prayers...
College societies might inaugurate the movement successfully; for each has authority enough to insure the support of the undertaking. An invitation from any of them would doubtless be as favorably answered as heretofore. The influence of societies would make itself felt beyond the list of members, and the benefit to the College of such associations would be less doubtful...
...with those journals which, either from remoteness of location or from want of literary merit, have seemed to us void of interest. We beg leave to inform the journals mentioned below, that our increasing collegiate duties prevent our giving that time to the perusal of their columns which they doubtless merit: College Courier, College Journal, Central Collegian, Indiana Student, Asbury Review, Lehigh Journal, Qui Vive, University Reporter, University Missourian, Geyser, University Press, Alumni Journal, Annalist, Southern Collegian...