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...Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories over Harvard at New London in the last two years have given an additional stimulus to aquatics at Yale, but neither this nor last year's brilliant prospects have brought over-weening confidence. Judging from the manner in which the crew works, one would think there were great odds to contend against...
...being made, the motion finally was withdrawn. A vote was then passed that the amended scheme be adopted and forwarded to the corporation for their approval or rejection. Nothing was said concerning the printing of the scheme; do not, however, the same objections against printing the rules in the manner proposed apply with equal force to the printing of the scheme? How, then, does it happen that the full scheme and standing rules should appear in print, in but one college paper, and that, too, as though they had been finally adopted? Was this announcement official...
...stated on good authority that a finely illustrated edition of Whittier's poems will soon be published, similar to that of Longfellow's which made its appearance last year. The engraving will be executed in the finest possible manner and the book will probably appear about the first of April...
...moment her daily routine of recitations. The annual day of prayer for colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being held over a professor who ought to be respected...
...last number of Harper's Weekly takes up the question of "practical joking" by collegians, and discusses it in a reasonable if not in an original manner. But we have to make the same objection that we made once before - the newspapers fail to make distinctions; and when Harper's Weekly classes the innocent extravaganza of the Harvard freshmen at Boston Music Hall in the same class with the recent kidnapping and hazing affairs at other colleges - then we claim that it shows lack of discrimination and of fairness. We entirely agree with that journal, however, when it says, "There...