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...members of the senior class of Harvard College, wish to express our regret at the sudden death of Charles Brooks Saunderson...
...bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without the slightest provocation, and in fact much of it was nothing more than the crowd's desire to express sympathy with its favorites. We sincerely hope and believe that nothing of this sort will ever again mar a Harvard athletic meeting...
...PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE:We, the undersigned, students in Harvard College, respectfully petition that the corporation provide a half-course in elementary descriptive astronomy, without mathematics for the year 1888-89; and we express our intention of taking such a course, should it be provided...
...speak strongly: because I feel, and everybody else feels, that our athletics are very critical this year-that our chances are very uncertain as yet, and that we must leave no stone unturned. I have heard many men express the desire that this petition be started, and I am sure that everybody would subscribe. The best way to go about would be the method employed in the prayer petition. At any rate the base-ball management, if it cares anything for the nine's success, must wake up and go to work on this matter, and at once...
...Ernest Rhys, in his address of last night, said that the essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes...