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...interest in which a whole class is united. At the same time the elective system throws men of different classes together, and tends to make us more a University, where the only distinctions made by the government are in the degree of knowledge obtained, and where Freshmen and Seniors may meet on common ground in the recitation-room. It seems, therefore, a favorable time to try to reunite the "sets" in each class, and to bring together the whole College on some foundation that shall be more lasting than class feeling and more suited to the increasing maturity of Harvard...
...make known in the columns of your paper the true state of things in regard to the arrangement of games this year with Yale and Princeton. All the statements that I have seen so far have been erroneous. We shall play a game with the Princeton Nine on Saturday, May 15, in Princeton, not in New York. The Princeton Nine wish to play us a return game in Boston about the last of this month. The games with Yale have not yet been arranged. I have written to Yale, offering to go to New Haven or to Hartford...
...prompt payment of subscriptions is indispensable to the success of the next meeting, as the necessary expenses are considerable; for although the intrinsic value of the prizes may be slight (and more 's the pity), yet they, in conjunction with the erection of temporary accommodation for visitors, etc., form important items of expenditure. Supported as this institution is by the approval of the President and Faculty, useful as it is in itself, and ably managed as it is by its projectors, nothing but the vigorous support of its friends is wanting to make it second to none of the valued...
...Class Committee again earnestly request Seniors to send in contributions for the Class Song and Baccalaureate Hymn. The Committee will be compelled to make a choice by May 15, and all who intend to write should do so at once...
...than three minutes for its delivery, on a subject which had been assigned him by the exceedingly witty (?) committee of arrangements from the Senior Class. I have queried the word "witty," because to the uninitiated mind, judging from the detailed account of the performances in the last Advocate, it may seem that the wit is exceedingly small and "sick." And so it must be confessed the greater part of it was; but the jokes were better to hear than to read, and of course an audience, for the most part excited by Adam's ale, ice-cream, and the sight...