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...presented themselves for examination at Cincinnati, six were admitted and four were rejected. The same number were admitted at these examinations last year...
...among faultlessly dressed young fellows, the usual inquiries and responses as to the manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future...
THOSE people who carry around the subscription-paper often complain that signers are not to be found in such numbers as the justness of their cause seems to demand. Perhaps the number of the papers has something to do with these complaints, but one great cause of unwillingness to give liberally is to be found in the fact that the givers have only the faintest idea where all the money goes to. The Hokey Pokey Club need money to purchase new uniforms, or to play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms...
...aquatic successes of last June make us all more kindly disposed toward rowing, more hopeful for victory, and more ready to support the boat-clubs and the crew, than we have had reason to be for a number of years. By the excellent management of the treasury, the crew's finances have been left in a much better condition than before; but the tottering boat-clubs, with difficulty kept on their legs through last year, are now feebly supplicating support for another season. Boating is standing before us, like a stout and swift but rather ill-cared-for horse, ready...
...often, because of their omissions, untrustworthy, and to know Harvard's side of the story one has to wait until the first issue of the college papers in the fall. The publication of the news contained in this issue leaves the Crimson free to present for the first number of the next volume an interesting paper...