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...only worthy objection to the exercises around the tree is the dust and shouting raised by the rush of the lower classes, - the sole remaining sign at Harvard of the enmity which is proverbially connected with the name of Sophomores and Freshmen. Although the abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen...
LAST night a meeting was held in Lower Holden to discuss the question whether Harvard should withdraw from the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Mr. Weld, President of the H. U. B. C., opened the meeting by saying that it was the unanimous opinion of the Executive Committee that the advice of our delegates to the late convention should be accepted, and that Harvard should withdraw. He gave some of the reasons which led the Committee to form this opinion, and which were mainly those stated by one of the delegates in an article in our last number entitled "Harvard...
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...passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs, and which, though natural in the lower classes, should speedily be overcome by men who are beginning to have a share in decisions upon questions of national interest, involving alike their honor, their safety, and their property. The Freshman, naturally shy about speaking before his unknown classmates, thinks that the easiest way will...
...finds that some one on whom he has depended for an article has been prevented by a forensic, a thesis, or a Bowdoin prize. As we do not, however, wish to seem to deny the justice of the Advocate's complaint that it receives very few articles from the lower classes, we would venture to suggest that, if there is time, a few themes in the Freshman year would be a great improvement, for it is very rarely that men gain much control of their pens till the middle of the Sophomore year...