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...present year is the Jubilee year of the Oxford and Cambridge Match, the first Inter-University cricket match having taken place at Lord...
...quite fashionable for Harvard men to be somewhat boastful of the various advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record...
There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...give members of the upper classes an opportunity of joining; preparation for the Semiannuals having prevented the attendance of many who are favorable to the movement. It is desirable that all who wish to avail themselves of this course of instruction in military affairs should be present at the Gymnasium, as a draft of a constitution and by-laws will be submitted to the meeting. The corps is open to all departments of the University, free of expense...
...Reading-Room supplies no need in the way of magazines, it does supply a real need in the way of newspapers. If the Directors would limit their subscriptions to the leading papers, and reduce the membership fee by one half, the debt would be paid more rapidly, and the present Freshman might hope, before the end of his college course, to peruse a Reading-Room paper by gaslight...