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...suppose most of you have an idea that Canada is such a place, and that you would be as willing to live at the North Pole as there. Let me drive this notion out of your head, that is, if you are men enough to acknowledge you are in the wrong. When we have winter there we have it in earnest, and there is usually plenty of snow, ice, ay, and cold; we don't very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there...
...this he put in the form of a motion. He explained further that the question was one of too much importance to be decided without having the opinion of graduates of some years' standing, and without consulting their wishes. This met with some opposition from undergraduates, but the idea was supported by Mr. Warren, of '75, who thought, too, that we owed something to the colleges who had beaten us while we were in the association, and that if we withdrew we should offer to row them, after or before any other race in which we might take part...
...part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that for a little more than that a student could get good, plain food, simply but well cooked, which would be all that could be expected of an arrangement to allow us to economize without danger to our health. In point of fact, I believe the price has averaged perhaps thirty...
...action of the Faculty in requiring, under certain circumstances, a fee from men who present themselves a third time for examination on any subject is a move in an entirely new direction. We take it that the idea was not so much to bring men to get off their conditions on the first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give...
...members of '77 who take an interest in the subject of a class window can obtain some idea of one from a water-color sketch of a window designed especially for Memorial Hall, by calling at 18 Holworthy...