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...large number of small muckers amused themselves by setting off fireworks in the yard, and larger specimens of the same species used the yard as a bicycle riding track. The college authorities should enforce the privileges of private property by appointing an officer whose duty shall be to keep the yard free from obnoxious intruders. If the crowd of the "unwashed" who now frequent the yard were made to understand that they were, like beggars and pedlars, in danger of being "given in charge to the police," our class days, also, would be freer from a disagreeable element...
Simkins, to Miss Innocent, at the spring sports: "Look, they have put Smith's time down at 8.55; I guess they want to keep his record dark." Miss Innocent: "Why, how can they do that if they write it down in white? [The problem is still unsolved.] - [Chaff...
...live in the college dormitories. With us, those who are responsible for the good order of their buildings are denominated proctors, but in the English universities the proctor is a very different and much grander person. Those whose duty it is in the separate colleges of Oxford to keep order and conduct the examinations are the tutors, most of whom reside within the walls...
...make no sense of them, as they were evidently in cypher. Consequently he was beginning to have visions of infernal machines and was scraping together in his memory the various Irish agitators of whom he had expressed an unfavorable opinion, for the purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only...
Interest in tennis was never stronger in the college than it is this spring, and it is fitting that an effort should be made to keep this interest alive and indeed to stimulate it. The best players, those who have made the college prominent in this sport, will leave with the present senior class, and it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to fill their places. Now that Harvard has joined the Inter-collegiate Tennis Association, there will be a greater demand for expert players than ever before, and we urge constant practice on the part of those...