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Students at Memorial who wish to form additional club tables are requested to hand in their names at once, as the assignment of seats will take place shortly...
...inestimable advantage to be gained from acquiring the ability to speak connectedly and logically, before an audience, need not be dwelt upon. The college authorities recognized its importance years ago when a course in debate (English 6) was established. Last year the course was omitted on account of its place being filled by the Union, and for 1883-84 the course is also bracketed. Any member of the university is eligible for membership upon payment of a nominal yearly fee, and meetings are held every fortnight on alternate Thursday evenings. Those wishing to join the society will have an opportunity...
...that Memorial Hall with its new steward is in complete operation and has been running for nearly a week, a few remarks on what impression it presents to an old boarder, may not seem out of place. In the first place it must be understood that the short time that has elapsed since the opening of the hall does not, of course furnish a perfectly satisfactory basis for comment, but the general idea of what we are to expect can be gained from the number of meals we have already had. It is absolutely necessary that the hall should...
...first place, the board may be said to have greatly improved on the whole. The breakfasts and dinners are far superior to the corresponding meals of last year. The lunches however, are no better than before, while the desserts at dinner, or rather, the pastry is not so good. The fruit, however, is much better. So that all that can be asked is that the character of the lunches and the pastries be improved and that with all this improvement the price of board be kept within reasonable limits. The only change that I have to suggest beyond these...
...such practical jokes upon the freshman as to sell them seats in the chapel or hymn books. A favorite trick seems to be to refer the unsuspecting young man who has just taken out his papers in that classic university to the house of some professor for a boarding place. The amiable sophomore also has the habit of making friends with his freshman victim and offering to initiate him into the mysteries of the university. We, at Harvard, feel confident that our freshmen are a superior order of being to the Brown freshmen. No Harvard freshman was ever known...