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...game with Yale, has awakened a lively interest in foot-ball throughout the College. It is well known that Harvard declined to join the Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism, yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best; nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent...
...success, so far, as the originators could possibly wish. They have been attended by large audiences, made up principally of undergraduates and partially of professors, students in the various schools, and residents of Cambridge, including some ladies. Although the first announcement of the readings stated only that they were open to the members of the University, the additions to the audiences have been apparently received with pleasure by the readers. Before beginning his first reading, Professor Child stated the object of the course in a few words. He said that arrangements had been made to have the great masterpieces read...
...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...
...understood that responsible parties will soon open a Bureau of Ornamentation, and that by sending them a stamped envelope and $1, Freshmen can be supplied with a full set of shingles, etc., of the prominent societies...
...room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which at the next dusting a large portion would descend...