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...exercise their boyish propensities for mischief on the letter-box instead of on the much-enduring drain; but public opinion against their wanton mischief would be much stronger if our own personal convenience were to be interfered with. To obtain this improvement, it would, we suppose, be necessary to present a petition to the Post-Office authorities, and we hope that the suggestion will soon be adopted...
...possible 50 was made at two hundred yards, and in practice 42 out of 50 and 23 out of 25 have been scored at the same range. The club now numbers about twenty members, and the entrance-fee has been fixed at five dollars. If the present interest continues, we shall expect to see, in the spring, some remarkable shooting...
...their action has been regarded by some from another standpoint. It has been said that when they formed and supported crews they managed the boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with...
PHILIP ALLEN POST, formerly a member of the present Junior Class, died in Newport on Sunday, December 26, of typhus fever. A few of his friends knew of his dangerous illness, but the announcement of his death was a shock for which no one was fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen...
...present we are in a peculiar situation in regard to these colleges. We have found, by a rather unpleasant experience, that our interests in boating matters are not identical with theirs, and we have taken what I consider a most wise course, in announcing our intention of dissolving our connection with them. This seems to me the policy which will of necessity be adopted in future. It is the only way in which we can avoid the unpleasantness sure to arise when we attempt to pull together and find by experience the difference in our interests...