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...complimentary dinner was given to the Yale freshmen Saturday evening at the Parker House. Numerous speeches and toasts were given and both nines were heartily cheered. About one hundred were present...
...year. The regulation is a commendable one, and it was probably intended by a body as exact as the Harvard faculty that it should be taken advantage of. Every one recognizes that Rhetoric is not a very entertaining study, and there is considerable doubt whether, as it is at present taught, it is of sufficient value to justify a man devoting to it the required time. At all events it is advisable to finish the course, if possible, before the beginning of the sophomore year, and at present it is probably the intention of the majority...
...Hough, '81, is at present visiting in Cambridge...
...average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room for the last Nation or Puck or the new Elective Pamphlet, and having assumed...
...Senate committee on post-offices and post roads are generally in favor of reducing the rates of postage on letters to two cents and on newspapers and other printed matter to one-half the present rates...