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...Canoe Club burgee has arrived and gives general satisfaction. It is triangular in shape, and is made of crimson silk, on which is a gold shield surrounded by a circle. On the shield is painted in ivory black a large...
...clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale of living, inside and outside, now and twenty years...
...University. The proctors might keep themselves in the background to see that the fire did not become too large. The wood which was used-taken from the college wood-yard, would be cheerfully paid for by the nine. Such a course would have been in accordance with the general policy and traditions of the university, and it would have caused no unpleasant break in the cordial and beneficial understanding between the undergraduates and the faculty which it has been one of the chief honors of Harvard to maintain...
...approval. But I consider it outrageous that through the whole evening and far into the night such an infernal noise should be kept up that no man who had studying to do could attend to his work. From 8.30 until 11 the disturbance was in no sense a general demonstration by the college; twenty-five men could be named who made ninety-nine per cent, of the noise. That three or four possessors of fish horns and boyish lovers of noise in general, and cannon crackers in particular, should be allowed to turn Harvard square into pandemonium, is a disgrace...
...think that we may safely leave cliquishness and clannishness in our societies to the operation of general causes, and especially tot the growth of good sense among properlytrained young...