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...students, ladies who ride only to the railroad crossing, and gentlemen of color, you may once during your stay at Cambridge find a seat. I know a man while in College, who found a seat twice; you think I don't, but I do. In the half-past eleven car, the innocent prattle of the Freshmen may help to keep your temper from bursting out against this railroad monopoly, but it don't aid you in getting a seat. The twelve o'clock car is the real tough one, though; sometimes there is only standing room on top, but generally...
...pleasant to observe that the new Bright Scholarships, five in number, each of $ 275.00, were assigned to Freshmen immediately after the Christmas examinations. The Scholarships now available for Freshmen at this early date are eight in number, against three of years past. This year one Matthews Scholarship was also assigned on the merit of the Christmas examinations alone...
...woman scarce from girlhood past...
ESPECIALLY there seems to be no reason why the requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition...
NOTHING makes the University more interesting to graduates who come back here after several years' absence than the preservation of athletic trophies and records. Any one who has visited the English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with what interest he saw on the long roll of oarsmen men who afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make...