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...Rugby rules have been adopted, and at present foot-ball is the leading sport...
...HAVE noticed with regret the dissension in the present Senior class in regard to the class elections; but, as far as my observation will allow me to judge, there is little probability of an arrangement satisfactory to all parties concerned. And it seems to me that some radical change in the character of the ceremonies attendant upon graduation has become almost necessary...
...therefore feel that I may without impertinence call the attention of your readers to a plan which has occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that...
...become unwieldy and tiresome. A week of festivity, too, would probably attract to Cambridge the friends and relatives of students who reside at a distance. People who do not care to undertake a journey for the excited rush of a single overcrowded day would very probably like to be present throughout a gala week. I wish that this matter might be discussed...
...have been taken up in this elective, and that the letters of Gajus Pliny the Younger have been substituted? If the professors are not bound down to follow the printed programme, it certainly seems fair that some warning should be given to the unsuspecting to that effect. In the present case the change is not one that could cause much trouble, but it would be quite an unpleasant surprise to one who intended to pursue a course in Fine Arts with ardor to find that Mechanics had been put in its place. Is the elective system meant to work...