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...following day would be a remarkably close one. In the evening they were taken by the members of the Montreal team and their friends to the Metropolitan and City clubs, where they had been elected temporary members, and at each they were most kindly received; and here it may be as well to say that they were everywhere treated with that charming courtesy and old-time hospitality that belong so exclusively to the gentle-folk of good old England. The following morning the team and their friends were invited to be present at a fox-hunt at Outremont; accordingly they...
...boating interests absorb nearly all the money that can be raised by subscription, and the students have discovered that, after all, non-subscribers can contrive to slip into the seats; so they are naturally disinclined to pay in advance for a seat which they not only may not wish to use, but which they might obtain without paying...
Never will Harvard forget the obligations under which she lies to Montreal, and we only hope the time may not be far distant when we shall have the pleasure of doing what little is in our power to return their sincere proofs of good feeling and true hospitality...
...remember rightly, to blame Harvard for not giving enough instruction in writing. People who saw in the Catalogue what seemed a very small number of themes and forensics prescribed, would hastily conclude that Harvard offered no other opportunities for training in writing. To show that this conclusion is unfair may justify us as undergraduates in defending our Alma Mater against an accusation in which some of our College rulers have joined; and as visiting committees of the Overseers have just been formed, we hope that it will not seem impertinent in us to warn them that more work may...
...prominent writers and thinkers are induced to exercise themselves more in writing and thinking than less promising students, who will seldom need to do more than write business letters. Of course, there are many men who do not use any of these means of education, for even a theme may be bought for a few dollars; still it is through no fault of our system that men remain awkward in expressing themselves. That many of our best writers are willing to make the most of their opportunities every editor knows, who so often finds that some one on whom...