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...Corporation has notified the societies in the College buildings that their rooms must be vacated at the end of the present term. This action is caused principally, we believe, by a desire to increase the number of rooms which can be let to students by the College. There can be no doubt that the demand for rooms in the buildings far exceeds the supply, but the plan for satisfying this demand seems to us as poor a one as could well be devised. It is neither just toward the societies nor likely to prove beneficial to the University. Upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...season, as it might appropriately be called. To spectators, also, this tournament will be interesting, and probably very amusing. Any break in the winter's dulness is certain to be acceptable. The Athletic Association has shown praiseworthy activity in this matter, and we wish it would consider, at the present time, the results of its fall and summer meetings. In all of them there have been very few contestants, and among these a lack of thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...seventh volume of the Crimson begins with this number, and the Editors from '76 retire from active duty on the paper. Although their official connection with the Crimson ceases now, the present Editors trust that the paper will never lack their interest and encouragement. The members of the board recently elected from 78 are: L. L. Eyre, Lawrence Jacob, Charles Moore, A. M. Sherwood, Bayard Tuckerman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...remove the slight misunderstanding under which the Yale papers seem to be laboring, we will state briefly the present condition of affairs in regard to the arrangements for the next Yale-Harvard base-ball match. The first game will be played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...Dining Hall is at present managed as cheaply as possible without seriously injuring our health, and I think it is an open question whether the majority of students are not of opinion that if the grade of food were higher their health and comfort would be greatly improved; but there is no way of deciding such a question, and therefore, out of deference to the necessities of the few, the many are obliged to be content with inferior food, unless they are willing to pay at a private house a price which shall not only give them good food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT AT MEMORIAL HALL. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »