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...congratulate the men who were selected last evening to represent Harvard in the coming debate with Princeton. They have been chosen to a position of much honor, but of honor tempered with a heavy responsibility. It is for them to maintain unbroken Harvard's list of victories in debate, and they are not likely to find this an easy task. At Yale, interest in debating has only of late years seen a revival; but at Princeton this is not the case. Ever since the debating league between Harvard and Yale was started. Princeton has been eager to become a member...
...board that the change in management is the sign of no change in the general policy of the paper; that policy in the main has long been fixed beyond change. It remains for us only to alter as may be necessary the methods by which we seek to maintain in our proper sphere, the sphere of college life in general and of Harvard life in particular, the character of an efficient newspaper...
...recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time...
From the reports which have come from New Haven during the week past, it is very evident that Harvard will have to bestir herself in order to maintain the supremacy in debating next year. Yale men may or may not care much about debating. Probably the feeling there does not differ greatly from what it is here. But this we know full well, - that Yale men do care a great deal about being beaten, and that now that the graduates are fairly awake something will be done to improve Yale's chances of victory...
...advisability of admitting the cheap labor of foreign countries is much discussed. Phillips Brooks always believed that our country was free to all. On the other hand, many maintain that the protection of our industries demands the restriction of immigration...