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...college life and pleasures would be shortened, and the social life of his senior year spoiled, no graduating with his class, no class day honors. Yes, in a measure his social life in college would end with his junior year, but would that small consideration be sufficient to offset the splendid advantages and added time for his life work...
Though the club was supposed to have started clear this year, it owed, in reality, seven hundred and thirty five dollars and seventy-five cents ($735.75). To offset this debt, there was a balance of one hundred and sixty dollars and three cents...
...cheapen the cost of living at Harvard. The subject seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that men can get along here with less outside help than at any other college...
...Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find out an opponent's physiological weakness? As an offset let us adopt chain-armor. This is a suggestion to the conference committee...
...names inserted twice, is 1086, whereas there was a total of 1092 last year, a net loss of 6. The 1092 of 1883-84 was a loss of 4 compared with 1882-83. The most noticeable loss is in the number of undergraduates in the academical department, which is offset by the rapod growth and increase in the Sheffield Scientific School. This latter branch threaten to rival, if not to supersede, the classical college, and in the dim hereafter we may learn to speak of Yale as a scientific school with a classical department attached. Compare these Yale figures with...