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COPIES of No. 1 of the present volume of the Crimson have been obtained, and subscribers can have them by calling at Sever...
...correspondent of the Columbia Spectator says, in the issue of January 27, that a heavy snow-storm has precluded all possibility of out-door exercise here at present...
Estimated amply, the Yard contains 2 1/8 miles of gravel-walks, including carriage-roads. At present prices, sufficient lumber for a thirty-inch walk, of the above length, can be bought for $550, $600 would cover the new walks to Sever and any incidentals. If, then, the donation of the College Fund were made conditional upon spending $600 for board-walks, the purpose in view would be accomplished in a manner unobjectionable to the Corporation...
...Nearly all the articles have a general interest even for students, and some are not without a special interest, as, for example, Dr Peabody's college customs fifty years ago, and President Eliot's treatment of the subject of scholarship, in which open scholarships are strongly opposed and the present system commended. Mr. Arthur Gilman gives the origin of the Annex, and Professor N. S. Shaler a short account of the Natural History Society, while Dr. D. A. Sargent replies to recent criticism on the Hemenway Gymnasium by the press. Dr. B. Joy Jeffries contributes an article on Color-Blindness...
...WITH the present number the editorial board from the class of '80 closes its connection with the Crimson. As we retire from our activity on the paper, we are naturally reminded of the progress that it has been our fortune to record. The past year has been an unusually eventful one for the College. We have witnessed the erection of Sever Hall and the new Gymnasium, and the establishment of a Professorship of Hygiene. The College is still burdened by the marking system, and is likely to be until the whole system of American instruction is reformed, and the university...