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...kindness of the President we are permitted to print the following letter, which he has received from Mr. Carlyle...
...Some days ago I received your courteous and obliging letter, and along with it the University Diploma appointed for me on the 30th June last, which now lies safely reposited here...
...give a notion of the expenses of the Club, we will quote from a letter recently sent us by one of its members. Subscribers of course expect seats, and it is necessary to erect them temporarily for each match. The person who bought the seats last year finds it impossible to erect them for a single day at a smaller price than $75, - three times what he gave for them. To prevent non-subscribers from occupying the seats, it has been found necessary to rope in a portion of the field, and to hire police-officers to guard it against...
...idea of this communication is worth notice, however. While agreeing with the author of last week's article in condemning the violence of President Buckham's letter, the anonymous writer thinks that the dignity of the President of a University demands an answer characterized with something besides "flippancy" and "pertness...
There was one idea contained in the letter which struck me as being particularly valuable and worthy of note, and that was to have contests in some useful and honest work between students. Looking from both a pecuniary and moral point of view, how much better it would be for Harvard to give up her boating and athletic sports, which not only involve great expenditure of money, but also foster vice by creating in students a desire for betting, and devote a part of the money hither-to spent on these to the purchase of agricultural implements and the formation...