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...weather and Lent together seem to have cast a gloom upon the minds of college editors in general. At least this is the most plausible excuse we are at present able to find for the lack of original material in any one of our exchanges. People of the new generation have introduced the new self-denial, - that of the fast of intellect; and were it not for events, which no one can control, and each other's business, which every one would like to control, there would not be much to remark...
...ENGLISH CRICKETERS COMING.- Arrangements are in hand for the visit of three English cricket teams to this country during the present year. The first to come will be Lord Harris's twelve, now playing in Australia. This team will leave that country in April, and will arrive at San Francisco in May, and from that time until the last of June will play through the States and Canada. Its games with the New York and Philadelphia clubs promise to be very interesting. The team plays an American eleven in Philadelphia about the 15th of June. The next team to visit...
...rooms. Now, if this latter policy is to be continued, - and, in view of the pecuniary necessities of the College, its wisdom is not disputed,- it is submitted, that to open scholarships to the competition of all would be precisely the counteracting movement which is emphatically called for. The present restrictions upon these emoluments are discouraging to the sons of professional men who are just holding their places in the bitter struggle for existence. More youths from this numerous class - and they are often the best material for education the land affords - would seek Harvard, if, through their own exertions...
...usual supper of the Sophomore class took place at Young's Hotel on last Friday evening, February 28. About seventy-five gentlemen were present; a smaller number than might have been desired, but still, taking everything into consideration, as large as could be expected. Mr. W. A. Slater officiated as president, and Mr. W. R. Thayer as toast-master. Mr. M. St. C. Wright was orator of the occasion, and Mr. C. T. Dazey, the poet; their efforts were highly praiseworthy and very successful. They were abundant in wit and in allusions, the peculiar significance of which was keenly appreciated...
...plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing...