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...opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard are bound to give it every opportunity and all possible aid in proving its usefulness and justifying its establishment. If it fails it will fail because of other reasons than the puerile opposition of officious outsiders and busybodies...
...devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence of last year's comet; but we fear that with whatever eclat her advent is heralded, she will fail utterly to dazzle her beholders...
...books in Cambridge than in other places. The Co-operative Society, as all such institutions, has been formed with the best possible motives, the good of a large number and the intentional injury of no one. All belligerent onslaughts of those who find their pleasant monopolies tampered with cannot fail to be perfectly inane, and can only hasten their long-deferred deserts...
...believed - of students, who ask for simple, wholesome fare at low rates, can only meet with success if responded to with liberality. It is necessarily merely an experiment for the rest of this year; and if, by the neglect of those for whose benefit it was undertaken, it should fail, its failure would carry with it the failure of the association, and the probable abandonment of the whole organization. For the sake, therefore, of preserving this institution, whose full value to themselves even they would realize to their cost if it should be removed, these men should come back...
...next event was the Pole Vault, for which Chase, '83, Mandell, '84, and Field, '84, entered. The bar was started at 6 feet; all went over. The bar was gradually raised, and it seemed as if they would never fail. As the it successfully, the applause became vociferous. Mr. Wendell finally announced the height of the stick at 8 feet 10 1/2 inches. At this, Mandell failed twice, but went over the third time. At 9 feet 3/4 inches, Chase retired, failing after three trials. Field soon after withdrew. Mandell failed to go higher than this and was awarded...