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Many customs that formed prominent features in the old-time student life of Harvard have gradually been dropped and forgotten, and not a few of them merited the disuse into which they have fallen. One custom, however, which seems in a fair way to become extinct is worthy a better fate. It is extremely strange that our undergraduates should have abandoned so enjoyable a custom as that of singing in the yard. Old graduates express the utmost surprise when told that student singing is very seldom heard in the yard, and recall with pleasure their own college days, when...
...Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies and organizations of to-day were illustrated by their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified by the students, I really have forgotten. We have here in Harvard the men, plenty of music, and from last year, the experience for a big procession. Each society and organization would bend its energies to its own particular section and the whole would with a little guidance, take care of itself. A peculiarly Harvard procession, as such...
...hard and faithful work with, perhaps, less encouragement than any other class of athletes in college. Plenty of spectators may be found watching the practice of the nine on Holmes Field, and the lacrosse and cricket men are seldom left to work unobserved, but the crew men are apparently forgotten by the college, and go on in their work with only such support as may come from their own self-approval. It used to be a well established custom among our undergraduates to saunter down to the boat-house, and lounge away the long spring afternoons with a book...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It seems to me that in the criticism on the Harvard Monthly that appeared in yesterdays paper, more especially in the portion relating to Mr. Sanford's story, the reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer...
Before the great decline in the worth of silver, in 1876, the topic had hardly been touched by the present generation. And the old discussions, and experiences in England and in this country had been forgotten. But to quote again, "Professor Laughlin has grouped together all the scattered material of our own history, and nearly all that is useful from the history of other nations, to equip those who desire to enlist in the fight on the side of correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting...