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...proposed to change the college color, which is at present green...
...goes into operation. It seems that new measures affecting undergraduates are not considered in active operation until they have been posted on the bulletin-board; therefore, although this vote was passed nearly six months ago, it has not yet gone into effect. The question of substituting it for the present regulation, requiring merely an average of fifty per cent, will soon be considered by the Faculty. It is of course impossible to state what their decision will be. We have a trusting confidence and a strong hope that, after being reconsidered, the new rule will never be carried...
...Advocate last week enumerated the various grievances at the Commons, and suggested that a change for the better could only be hoped for under a new management. It was proposed that in the election of directors the removal of the present steward be made an issue. We are of the same mind with the Advocate as to both these points, and are happy to state that the elections held this week have resulted largely in the choice of men pledged to vote for a "new deal." But the difficulty to be anticipated is the interference of the Corporation. In allowing...
...because the offices are of great importance in themselves, or because persons capable of filling them are found with difficulty. The annual squabble arises from the fact that different "interests" insist on being "represented" without regard to any principle of reason or of justice. If the members of the present Senior Class could get over the idea, when they meet, that such and such a man is to be opposed because he happens to be a member of the Tweedledum Society and that so-and-so should be supported because he belongs to the Tweedledee Fraternity, they would show themselves...
...best men in the clubs who will consent to abandon easy-chairs and cigarettes for a few hours; for it is vain to hope that the best oars can be prevailed upon to exert themselves. The change, however, seems to us for the best, in the present state of affairs. We take it for granted that it is but a temporary measure, because a healthier state of boating affairs would be shown rather by a change from sixes to eights than from sixes to fours, and we are not ready yet to give up in despair the hope of seeing...