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...finding his own occupation and amusement. The disappearing of the childish ill-feeling toward men of a higher class, is one of the most potent indications of a university, and it seems strange that its absence should be regretted. That men, at a place like Harvard, should take little interest in the personal affairs of those about them, that they should be wholly absorbed in their own engagements, is very natural and easily understood. We are in the immediate vicinity of a great city, renowned for its social and literary brilliancy; a city with magnificent theatres and music-halls...
...comparatively rare among the young men who enter the college, a large majority of the students preferring languages, metaphysics, history, and political science, to mathematics, physics, zoology, and botany. Every extension of the system has been a gain to the individual student, to the college, and to every interest of education and learning; and the time is not far distant when the few subjects still prescribed for all students will in their turn become elective...
...sophomores alone take active interest in boating matters. True, there is an "University Association" which comes out in the "Liber Brunensis" with a full list of officers, and with the statement that the university crew has not been selected, but beyond this annual appearance it accomplishes nothing. The boat-house on the Seekonk river was badly damaged by last winter's ice, and immediate repairs were necessary to keep it from falling. Some of the energetic members of '84 started a subscription paper and the house is now in good order. The sophomore class has a number...
During the past week or two it has been widely circulated around college that the freshmen were not subscribing as liberally as they ought toward the support of their athletic interests. This rumor, it appears, has a good foundation. The manager of the freshman nine has seen every '85 man rooming in the college yard, excepting seventeen, and he has succeeded in getting just one half the amount necessary to run the nine well this year. He has been told by a number of men "to call again," but those persons should remember that there are over two hundred...
...looks as though great interest would be taken in athletics this spring...