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However good the present system for assigning rooms may seem on paper, every student knows that, in reality, it is open to many objections. It is about time that some better system were adopted which would give every man a fair chance, and which would not be liable to so many abuses. In the first place, the rule is that seniors are allowed to retain their rooms for their own occupation. But they are not allowed to transfer their rooms in case they decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly...
...sophomore class, when asked, signifies his intention to attend the class dinner, the book at Bartlett's contains very few names. The committee of arrangements is put to no little trouble by this lack of promptness, and out of consideration for them the sophomores who intend to be present at the class dinner, to be held at the Revere house on the 22d of April, should immediately subscribe. Remember that the 22d is close at hand, and that the number of those attending must be known in time...
There are at present ten or more canoe clubs in America, and three new organizations are about to be started. The American Canoe Association, comprising all these clubs, has now 250 members. The Knickerbocker Canoe Club of New York gives a spring regatta...
...Petersburg prefect of police received a basket of eggs for a present; on examination the eggs were found to contain dynamite...
...development of biological teaching at the University of Cambridge has been rapid and successful. One branch of it, that of animal morphology, has been created there by Mr. F. M. Balfour, and it has grown to its present importance through his ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university...