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THERE can be no doubt that a majority of the Senior class are at present in favor of a return to the old-fashioned Class Day. Now it has been rightly conjectured that unless Seventy-eight has a successful Class Day, this year will see the last of the traditional Class Day, and the substitution of a Corporation Day, in which Harvard College shall be lost sight of in Harvard University...
...fellow-travellers I can at present give you very little idea. The West seems to be well represented. There is a quiet man from Bowdoin, and opposite my state-room there are two dropped "Sophs" from Harvard. One of them is from California, - wonderful country that! - and is addicted to punning. He told me casually that unless they gave him better "grub" than he had at Memorial, he would rough (Woodruff) the expedition...
...unusually clear, with only a slight breeze blowing from the northwest, - a perfect day for foot-ball. If the weather had been fair on Saturday, the day originally appointed for the game, the grounds would have been well filled; as it was, there were about 1,000 present...
...year with nearly full ranks. This favorable opening means one or two enjoyable student concerts, and, we hope, a return to that very pleasing custom of singing in the Yard. The energy of Professor Paine has secured a first-class triple quartette for the Chapel; so that the present College choir is the best one Harvard has known for years. The musical electives are well filled, and the Committee on Music, appointed by the Overseers, have expressed themselves well pleased with the work done in the musical department of the College...
...several articles published in your paper last year on the subject of ventilation produced no effect. It is admitted, I believe, by nearly all architects, that they are unable to lay down rules in regard to the ventilation and acoustical properties of buildings. They say that in the present state of the building art these things are a mere matter of chance. This being the case, we cannot find fault with the constructors of our recitation-rooms, particularly as they were most of them built long before ventilation was ever heard of. What I do want to suggest is that...