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...comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled. Certainly in these points of detail the resolutions are most open to criticism. We do not see the connection between such points and the general question of professionalism. The issue on both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/15/1884 | See Source »

...Heliotype Co. must know at once if the class are to have the albums. All of the '84 men who wish one please step into Leavitt and Peirce's and sign their names. We must have one hundred signatures before next Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/13/1884 | See Source »

Without wishing to do any "injustice to the specialist," but merely as one whose own brief experience in the world has been to find the specialist of college quite as often open to the charge of superficiality as the possessors of a broad education, I am anxious to know whether my experience is of an anomalous kind. Moreover, as one who has advised an undergraduate this year, with a view to gaining rather a broad education than a special one, to risk losing his college distinctions and take a varied course, I should be glad to know whether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1884 | See Source »

...societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PORTUGUESE IDEA OF CRICKET. | 2/11/1884 | See Source »

...taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl said: "Mr. Blank, I should think you would be so glad to meet Lord So-and-so; you know he is a real Englishman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANGLOMANIA. | 2/7/1884 | See Source »