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...same decision which was arrived at some time ago by the management, so it only remains to get Columbia's consent. When the proposal made by Yale was forwarded by the managers of the Harvard crew to Columbia, she refused to give any decision in the matter until she heard the opinion of our freshman class. This opinion has been rendered, and the freshmen await the result with anxiety. We trust that future Harvard freshmen will never be compelled to regret the action...
Much amusement was occasioned at one of the base-ball games last week by the appearance of an Englishman who had never seen a game before. He was heard to ask why they forgot to place "a wicket on the crease...
...startling methods of replying to our criticism of April 22, show that they have chosen to find a feeling of ill-will and even bitterness in an editorial which we wrote in perfect good will and friendliness. But our criticism, we still maintain, was well-founded. We have frequently heard the same criticism made in the college at large, and at the time of our writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have not the least reason for regretting what we wrote...
...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 any chance gathering of undergraduates thought it no unpleasant way to pass an evening by joining in the jolly, rattling choruses which college men alone can sing. Nowadays all this is changed. Night after night the silence...
...exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement. As we bade our courteous guide farewell on the upper deck, we noticed the purser with a green parrot - the ship's pet - seated on his wrist and swearing volubly, - the last words we heard upon the "Wabash." We descended into the scow, which was waiting, the windlass turned, and we were once more on dry shore and heading towards Cambridge...