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...writers to newspapers, therefore, in order to cater to this feeling, from time to time regale the public with such accounts as are calculated to make us appear in the light either of fools or "roughs." The late fire in Hollis was a good subject, and they did not fail to take advantage of it; consequently a number of squibs went the rounds of the Boston papers, all tending to show the peculiar brilliancy the students here possess. It was stated that the students carefully carried down stairs every article of bedding, while they with equal care threw crockery ware...
Such announcement of cuts seems to us an unmixed good, and it is only with unpleasant surprise that we learn of the Registrar's interference with its continuance. This is not the first occasion on which the present Registrar has interfered officiously, when not officially, with matters that seem without the sphere of his action, and has manifested a spirit towards students that may in future render the legitimate exercise of his functions less agreeable than would be desirable. We certainly admire the subordinate's strict execution of a superior officer's orders, but when an inferior becomes more rigorous...
HARVARD men will find some extremely witty burlesque writing in the item column of the last, Advocate, under "Comments on the Recent Fire"; the hits there are too good not to be continued, and we look for more...
Does the possession of a good memory afford any indication of the presence or absence of other mental powers...
...Galaxy for February we find a good number. Noticeable in the contents is an essay on the minor French novelists by Henry James, and an article on that morbidly interesting subject, suicide. Serials by William Black and Miss Howells are continued; and among the wadding we notice a timely article opposing any reduction of the army in this country...