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...Harvard Index appeared early this week. It lacks the alphabetical list of students, which was its most praiseworthy feature last year, and it is so incorrect, and so evidently a money-making enterprise, that we cannot help wishing it was issued by persons of better judgment...
...Saturday morning the Advertiser, after giving the list of officers elected by the Class of '76, made the following brilliant remark: "This was a victory for the Puddings, and a return to the vicious system of society influence in elections." Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise...
...caution is hardly necessary as to the extreme rapidity with which absences sum up when there is a confirmed habit of cutting uninteresting recitations on small provocation, and yet, probably, these swell the black list to a large extent. The apparent fallacy in the position is the exhorting of students to keep up an artificial state of attendance on recitations, while the experiment looks to ascertain the real disposition of students with regard to the matter. This, however, disappears when we remember that the test which the authorities are agreed to apply is an arbitrary and perhaps inadequate one, namely...
...future meetings of the H. U. B. C. the voting will be done by the check-list. No one who has failed to pay his entrance-fee of $3.00 will be allowed to vote. An important meeting will be held soon to decide whether Harvard will remain longer in the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Any one whose entrance fee is not paid should communicate with the Secretary at once...
...subscription list for the University Crew has been circulated lately among all the classes, and the subscriptions of the three upper classes have been liberal, while the Freshmen have given but little and that with very bad grace. A year ago the new system of assessing each class a certain percentage of the amount necessary for the crew was instituted, and was acknowledged by every one to be a very just and equitable way of raising the money required. Each class now in passing through College supports one crew. The Freshmen are assessed thirty-five per cent of the whole...