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...inmates of Matthews need not be frightened by the rumbling noise made about midnight. It is only some Seniors elevating water for their morning ablutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...condition that the two gentlemen whom the members of the "Quartette" regarded as the prime movers in this affair should resign. The Glee Club, recognizing, by this time, the impolitic step which had been taken in calling public attention to the "Harvard Arion Quartette," and feeling the imperative need of first tenors, avoided further collision by letting the blame of this action rest on two individuals, and by voting that it would be expedient for them to resign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...charities. If it can be shown that they are not, there is nothing more to be said; but it is so plain that they are that even President Eliot has rather given up this line of argument. As long as the Catalogue says, "None but those who need assistance are expected to apply," it will be hard to convince the average intelligence that money given in so-called scholarships is not a charity. The arguments of "T." on this point are somewhat plausible, but they seem to us unsound. We cannot see how the assistance given by the founders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...true that this will be a regular department of the Crimson in future, so subscribers need not discontinue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...must meet the obvious objection that wealthy young men might be induced to break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »