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...class of '93 that we appeal most strongly to put an end to the disgraces of Bloody Monday. They will naturally be the leaders, and the decision to continue or stop the custom rests mainly with them. They have been here long enough to learn that the college feeling is against the Bloody Monday initiation; and they ought to put an end to this remnant of barbarity...
Friends of the "Annex" will be pleased to learn that a member of that institution has won the Sargent pirze. Several years ago some discussion was excepted by the report that a member of the "Annex" had written a better essay than that of the actual winner of one of the Bowdoin prizes, and that she had not received the prize merely because she was not eligible to compete. Though this story proved unfounded, it roused the feeling that competition for some literary prize ought to be open equally to members of both institutions. This provision was made in regard...
Together with the rest of Harvard, we are pleased to learn that the money for the excavation of Delphi bids fair to be collected, but we regret that it has not already been done. The affair is in the hands of such enthusiastic men that it will certainly be pushed through. The request that the committee has made of men about to leave college will no doubt be appreciated and acted upon without delay; the rest of the subscribers to the fund have of course no objection to allowing the sums subscribed to stand over till the autumn...
...very glad to learn that I was mistaken in reference to the arrangements of the 'Varsity Boat Club for the Glee Club concert in Boston, Through the manager of the crew I learn that his own illness, the absence of the president, and the miscarriage of a letter, unavoidably left the concert unmanaged. This of course explains the seeming neglect of the boat club...
...satisfactory to learn that base ball games with Yale have been finally arranged. The failure to form a dual league according to Harvard's proposal necessarily complicated the negotiations, but the original dates have been accepted by both colleges. Upon the points of disagreement each college yielded something. The long delay and trouble in arranging these games shows one disadvantage of the present uncertain state of intercollegiate athletics, and the benefit to both Yale and Harvard of a dual league...