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The thanks of the college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when...
Uncle Remus, on the meaning of the word "vice-versa," thus enlightened some colored compatriots the other day: "I cannot desplain pezactly," he said, "so to meet wid your compredehension, but wiser-wersa am an propriation from de Latn, and means wuss and wuss and mo' of it. I members...
"Secret societies are an anomalous feature in American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites...
"At the late Harvard dinner President Eliot gave the key-note to the alumni of that university by dilating on the blessings of poverty to educational institutions. His plain meaning was that those who have their millions to spare should give them to Harvard, which has so large an endowment...
That there has been in one sense a very distinct "call" for Harvard to undertake it cannot be denied. The establishment of the annex in the near future as a constituent part of the university with a suitable endowment, seems more than probable. Thus it is that it well behooves...