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...course there is no real harm in an ordinary governor's mangling a quotation in this manner, but that one who aspired to a Harvard degree on the ground of his learning should thus betray himself is truly painful...
...impute the meanest of motives to his opponents, and should indulge in the most scurrilous language in relation to their action, is by no means surprising nor unexpected when we consider the notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician, the Governor of Massachusetts, in a newspaper interview, should indulge in bombastic threats against Harvard College - this, certainly, is a matter in which no Harvard man can afford to take an indifferent interest...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There has appeared in the columns of your paper a communication from R. B., attacking the Glee Club in a manner that requires answering; and it is perhaps well that the answer be made by one who, while himself not a member of the club, is yet interested in its welfare. To answer the last and least important objection first, the Glee Club, to my certain knowledge, was never asked to furnish a quartette at the Pi Eta theatricals. Individual members were approached and were finally obliged to refuse to sing on account of the bad condition...
...from Child's in the seventh. Great credit is due Nichols, Allen and Smith. Their play throughout was as steady as that of veterans, Allen's throwing to second being quick and accurate, and Nichols' pitching admirable in every respect, while Smith, besides covering first in his usual faultless manner, did the only good work at the bat for Harvard...
...There are those who maintain, respecting Princeton College, that, granting Dr. McCosh's eminent success in money-getting, the tone and manner of the students have not improved during his reign nor has the college advanced in literary culture. Such critics take exception to the perpetual stress laid on the getting of money, as though that were what the faculty chiefly looked for in the head of a college...