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...most interested in Harvard athletics had an interview with the "committee on athletics" appointed by the faculty. As the steps taken by the committee in regard to certain matters have a very important bearing upon the athletic interests of the college, I deem it my duty to explain fully to all members of the Athletic Association both what these steps taken by the committee are and their reasons for taking them...
...Boat Club is disappointed in its calculations to the extent of nearly $400, it is thought advisable to publish a statement of the finances of the club in order to induce the college to furnish more money, and to explain to those who think that the crew wastes money what the expenses have been...
...covering half a page of foolscap. He had been many times behind that mystery-hiding screen and could tell, if he would, why it takes fifteen minutes to get a cup of coffee and two minutes to have a steak and fried potatoes cooked to order. He might also explain why it is that, although the students have full power, yet they cannot add pickles to the bill of fare without consulting a body of men known as the corporation, who have invariably met just the day before and will not meet again for a month, so that petitions...
...another application of the bit of chamois skin kept in her powder-box. Mrs. Butterfield then descended to ask Mrs. De Sorosis if there were any powder on her face, and found that lady in the kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur in the opening and decanting of ice-cream. Mrs. De Sorosis was telling in an excited manner to a bewildered Irish servant the various ways in which it was possible to get the cream out of the mould without getting...
...Michigan University Chronicle has been having trouble with his mind lately, and in consequence has been led off into some vagaries by that gay deceiver, the Oberlin Review, which we feel sure he will repent of as soon as he comes to himself again. We cannot exactly explain the phenomenon, but there exists, we think, a curious epidemic in some of the Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody or other, and that the utmost vigor and rigor...