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...regard as an impertinence your intrusion of yourselves into a dispute-declared by me to be private between Mr. HI. - Phillipps and myself, and I am now glad to be rid of you, whose return for the faithful work I have given you (and others), is this present censorious caballing against...
...from the beginning of its Junior year. The fruits of this determination have been gradual, but not the less apparent. During the last week they have appeared in their maturity. We do not believe in glorification, but we do wish to point to the fact that at the present time there is no department in any direction where success is prized in which '82 is deficient, and there are many where it is pre-eminent. Not out of place here, perhaps, is mention of the '82 Class Supper. Whatever attacks in the past may have been made upon the reputation...
...change in History 9 is also to be regretted. Science has undoubtedly suffered by the temporary loss of Professors Shaler and J. P. Cooke; but this is unavoidable, and there remains no ground for complaint. But it is very easy to criticise, and somewhat ungracious, perhaps, at the present time. We can only say that the Elective Pamphlet in general displays the same merits and demerits as did its predecessor of last year...
...each event, and at the head of the list will be the first record made at Harvard at the game; and the record of every time it has since been improved by a Harvard man in college sports will then be given, bringing the list down to the present time. If any record is broken hereafter the winner's name and record will be added to the list. They are now being carefully prepared by Mr. E. J. Wendell, '82, and will be published in the next number of the Crimson. They will be of great interest...
DURING the last few months the Greek play has been an unfailing source of conversation, and, as was to be expected, a marked difference of opinion has been manifested concerning the proper mode of presenting the ancient tragedy. The ultra-Hellenic party could not abide the orchestra of forty, the supplementary chorus of sixty, the freedom of musical style, Jocasta's train, and other anachronisms. They said it would be an opera, not a Greek play. The modernizing party protested that Jocasta would look like a man if she had no train, that Greek music was luckily irrecoverable, that whatever...