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...much talked-of Thanksgiving vacation will consist, as we learn at the office, of only...
...pleasant to learn of the continued success of the American School ol of Classical Studies at Athens, in the foundation of which Harvard took so prominent a part. Any such contribution to disinterested scholarship and investigation on the part of America cannot but redound to the credit of the whole nation as well as the promoters of the enterprise...
Will you be so good as to communicate this decision of the committee at once to the members of our eleven, and to the elevens of other colleges, with whom arrangements for games may have been made ? Should you (or any member of the eleven) desire to learn more fully the grounds of this decision of the committee, I shall be glad to confer with you at my house on Saturday or Monday evening next. There is no objection to your having this note printed in the college papers...
Games should be arranged with all available clubs, for it is absolutely necessary that the men should play in their proper places if they are to learn to play together. In addition to this such of last year's freshman team as are not engaged should also be willing to come out and give the new-comers the benefit of their experience. The whole college too, is directly interested in the result of this contest and now is the time for them to contribute largely to the chances for Harvard's success. Upper class men can furnish encouragement and advice...
...dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold to the town of Cambridge, on condition that it should never be taken out of the place...