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CLASS feeling seems to be decreasing at Harvard, so that it is not uncommon to find men who scarcely know all their classmates by sight, - a natural consequence of the size of the classes and the lack of any interest in which a whole class is united. At the same time the elective system throws men of different classes together, and tends to make us more a University, where the only distinctions made by the government are in the degree of knowledge obtained, and where Freshmen and Seniors may meet on common ground in the recitation-room. It seems, therefore...
That hobby-horse "business" well you know...
...moon was a matter of square feet and inches, while it was impossible to cut in-ches out of cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance). Mr. Peirce, of '76, was to have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty of which a Junior member boldly complained, saying that his subject...
...side. Though the majority of the House is very conservative, yet motions have been passed approving of the faithful services of Mr. Gladstone to his country, and condemning the conservatives in regard to their policy in the case of the endowed schools. It may be interesting to you to know that the smallest conservative majority on a question of politics was thirteen, and that on the question of Mr. Gladstone's programme at the time of the late dissolution. A motion in favor of cremation was passed by a large majority, whilst a motion against marriage with a deceased wife...
...long since we took occasion to "growl" at the way the club crews monopolized the boats in the afternoons, and proposed a remedy, which we hope will receive attention. We know that it meets the approbation of a large number of club members, and that it would give general satisfaction, if the hours during which the crews need the boats were definitely fixed...