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...Harvard songs, as the Advocate suggests, and let the Harvard poets as well as the Harvard musicians be allowed to publish their work in it. 2. Pay the goodies better wages and get better work. 3. Let us have better ventilation (excellent but "trite"). 4. Do not let interest in evening readings die out. (Further suggestion: Make evening readings more interesting.) 5. We pray for a public room for practising sparring. (All the fighting editors of the college are sadly out of training...
...investments shall, by vote of the directors, be devoted to the purchase and free distribution among such members of the society as apply for such aid, of text-books, furniture, or fuel. The treasurer shall keep a special record of all such balances, payments to the corporation, receipt of interest and expenditure of the same, as well as of other cash passing through his hands...
...question of peculiar importance and interest to every student of Harvard is who shall be dean of the college faculty next year. Scarcely any matter can be of more importance, for the effective work and progress of college life, than the election of a competent and suitable man for this position, by the overseers. While almost every one would have some particular choice, if the election rested with us, none will be disposed to grumble at the actual choice, provided that some one reasonably popular and efficient be selected. It would be mere presumption to claim that the students...
...following extract from President Eliot's article on the elective system is of immediate and significant interest to every Harvard man. The public will doubtless receive it as an official outlining of the future policy of this university; indeed it is substantially a statement of her present policy; and if Harvard were in need of any justification of her present system, in the discussion on this subject now going on in the public press, this might serve for that purpose. President Eliot says...
...Chief interest centred upon the young gladiator, Magnus Pugnus, whom the management have been so judiciously advertising. After killing three lions, an elephant, six leopards, crushing the skull of an ox, kicking down a frame house and eating ten or twelve slaves, he was pitted against one of the stock company of gladiators, Totus Idem. We cannot speak too highly of the ease and grace of Pugnus. After some amusing by-play, such as gouging out each other's eyes, tearing ears, etc., the combatants went at it in earnest. It was a royal fight, and the emperor showed...