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...full-dress rehearsal of the Pi Eta theatricals takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock; there will be given the drama, "Our Bitterest Foe," and the farce, "Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw...
During the fire on Saturday, one of the Harvard men who were especially active in rescuing stoves, potatoes and children, was seen to enter the side room of a house, put a dent in his hat, place his scarf awry, and then emerge with a halo of courage and self-abnegation playing about his features...
...senior class dinner will take place at Parker's on Monday, the 26th, at seven o'clock P. M. The dinner will be paid for out of the class fund, and it is hoped that all past and present members of '82 will be able to attend. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, in which all who intend to be present at the dinner are requested to sign; those who wish to sit together may do so by bracketing their names...
...earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even if a lad's father have money enough to keep him from the necessity of work, and his business life be simply the gentlemanly arts of helping to manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either employment. Neither Greek nor Latin nor the higher mathematics have brought him a single idea concerning prudent investments, the capabilities of money in the world...
...Providence crew had the inside position, and so took its place near the eastern shore, with the 'Varsity next and the Freshman outside; the Freshman it will be seen were then compelled to take the rough water. The boats were readily got into line and when the word was given at the first attempt were off, the Narragansetts taking the water first, with a stroke at the start of 38 to a minute, and at about 95 yards from the "go" were near half a length ahead of the 'Varsity. The 'Varsity at this time were pulling...