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Although complaints have been frequent, no one has heretofore proposed any practicable plan to reform the present state of affairs at Memorial. Recently a gentlemen, unconnected with the college, made a thorough examination of the subject, and presents a number of excellent suggestions. The principal fault to be found with Memorial fare is the poor cooking of the food, due to the insufficient number of cooks, the overtaxing of their patience by the order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from...
...management of the athletic teams, we desire to draw the attention of the freshman class to the fact that a debt is still hanging over the eleven. That a debt, small one though it is, should still exist at this late hour, strikes us as showing a fault of management rather than a refusal on the part of the class to remove it by subscription...
...substances known to the practical world. What would he be compelled to do if he should see the stairs all ablaze below? He would either have to jump at the risk of his life or be roasted alive. The college authorities ought to take some step to remedy this fault. It they do not, they will, perhaps, experience some catastrophe that will open their eyes...
...rejoice in the start that has been made against snobbery among us. But I hope that this question will not be confined to the comparatively limited extent of the snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases...
...correspondingly more interesting. The arrangement of the societies, etc., is about the same as in last year's book, but there is a great improvement in the advertisements, which are better selected and greater in number than heretofore. The typographical errors are numerous, and this is the chief fault in the book; but it is well-nigh impossible with sometimes very carelessly given data to work upon, to publish such a collection of groups without having many mistakes in orthography. On the whole the Index for 1887-88 is an improvement over its predecessors and does great credit...