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...rising against it. Your cousin Ned writes from Exeter that most of his class and of the class below him are going to Yale. That is a new step for Exeter, and what does it mean? Why, that the parents are growing suspicious of Harvard's present system, and prefer to send their boys somewhere else. Now, if this is the case...
...number of students sufficient to make the experiment pay will join the company, telephones will be introduced immediately. The rent of the telephones will be ten dollars each per year, and their use on the line will not interfere with the old instruments, should any one prefer to remain an old fogy. Students wishing to join the company are requested to send their names to the Secretary immediately, so that the line may be put in working order by Christmas...
...told that keeping people here all day is too much, that they get tired, and that they much prefer a performance like that of last year, when they were only compelled to enjoy themselves in the evening. I fear that those who urge this have had more conversation with the chaperons than with the young ladies. Those who especially do honor to Class Day, and who, after the Seniors, take the most pleasure in it, are the "buds." Now who ever heard one of these complain of the length of a ball? No, no, it is absurd to suppose that...
...which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
...wish to have breakfast after half past eight, are few compared with those who have so far appeared at the Hall before Chapel exercises. To be sure, the post-Chapel is much inferior to the pre-Chapel breakfast; but, if this sacrifice on the part of a few who prefer to work at night and sleep in the morning is productive of a great convenience to a much larger body who prefer daylight, we believe no one will be so unjust as to complain...