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...destruction. In connection with this we are sorry to learn that a movement is on foot to cut down those graceful old elms on Brattle Street, which formerly overshadowed the shop of that village smithy whom our Cambridge poet has so sweetly made famous. It is perhaps useless to expect that the influence of professors or students will be effective on an unbridled and Port-pampered government; we can only invoke the aid of the equally unbridled public opinion...
...made at two hundred yards, and in practice 42 out of 50 and 23 out of 25 have been scored at the same range. The club now numbers about twenty members, and the entrance-fee has been fixed at five dollars. If the present interest continues, we shall expect to see, in the spring, some remarkable shooting...
...gentlemen of the class of '71 have bound Harvard irretrievably for an indefinite time to come, or at least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard should wish to row again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play and ungentlemanly conduct"; and this argument under other circumstances would really have some weight, but at present it is useless...
...well, because I find no such difficulty when I am driven to the Holly Tree for a steak to support life. Every one knows what a vast difference there is between the taste of beef at home and at Memorial, and though it would be unreasonable to expect all the comforts of home, we ought at least to have the advantages of a first-class restaurant...
...think that the feeling is growing stronger that, though our Directors do all that we could expect of them, half a dozen inexperienced young men are not able to manage what is really a large hotel, and that it would be far better for all concerned if the College would take the affair into its own hands. The Corporation and Overseers used last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they...