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...next meeting of the Harvard Union takes place on Thursday, December 9. The question for debate is : Resolved, That it is for the interest of the country to restrict Chinese immigration. Affirmative : Messrs. Jackson, '81, and Davis, '81; negative : Messrs. Firman, '82, and McKone...
...delay on the staircase? Don't be afraid if you are surprised, for you see only the material of that gigantic experiment for educating womankind. Come along, they have all gone out. This is not co-education, but after-co-education. Well, this is the place. Sit at the desk beside me, as Ralph is sick of the measles and will be away for several days...
...first place, you know the fellows had given me several hundred dollars to put up on the game, knowing that we had a pretty sure thing of it; and they had particularly asked me to get odds of at least five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard...
...which call for remark, in order to prevent their occurrence in future. In several instances a lack of the sense of propriety was shown, considering the subject and occasion; while one or two of the speakers indulged in what would have been inappropriate at any time or in any place. There was also a tendency to levity, a tendency which should be checked, both because it seems to be growing in the Union, and because in a speech on a serious subject, wit and humor should not be the main elements. The audience, however, was good-natured, and readily over...
...necessary for the Captain of the Nine and Crew to have an Executive Committee subservient to them, then it will be better to give up holding meetings of the University, in which there is no chance for open nomination, and where an unprejudiced student feels himself out of place, or, at best, merely the echo of those who are running the matter. We also agree with the Advocate in the inadvisability of appointing a graduate of several years' standing to the presidency of any of our undergraduate athletic organizations; for while we do not doubt that he will...