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...statement of college expenses. As the result of a large number of inquiries, he found that the smallest annual expenditure was $471, and the largest $2,500. Since this wide range of expenditure gave insufficient data from which to make fair estimates, the President has prepared a table to exhibit four scales of annual expenditure. This table is restricted to the nine months of college life, and is, we think, a very fair estimate of college expenses...
...intents and purposes there is no hazing at Harvard. Yet in each class a few men are to be found who think it necessary to their own reputations to exhibit their superiority, - a thing which they do in the manner most natural to themselves. Of late years the same class pride which used to favor the obnoxious practice has been enlisted on the side of law and order. When a hazing band was organized this year, their operations were effectually checked by representatives from that Sophomore society to which the College owe its thanks for still another reform...
...college paper that does such things (it is not necessary to be more explicit) prepared a table of statistics of the circulation of a number of college papers, the object being to exhibit its own superiority in this respect. We have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item...
...stream, or to the proximity of a battle field where, they are wont to assert, a battle was once fought, is still a matter of some doubt. A thoroughly impartial examiner might say that indications were slightly in favor of the latter hypothesis, judging from the undue pride they exhibit over certain perforations in the side of a house, said to have been made by bullets in the above-mentioned battle...
After all, my desire to see Harvard defeat Yale is secondary to my wish to see her exhibit scientific rowing for its own sake; and, if the annual struggle continues, I should prefer to see the flags awarded to the best oarsmanship, if it were practicable to come to a decision on such a basis. As it is, I am disposed to encourage races only so far as they encourage again a general use of the oar among the students as a means of improving the health...