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...boat-race, a great outcry was made, as everybody knows, that the upright boating lads would be corrupted by the evil influences of that sinful place. This objection, however, was groundless, since the strict training of the oarsmen would effectually prevent any dissipation on their part; but the present case is different. The slight training required of amateur ball-players would be no protection to the poor youths, and yard-sticks would fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere...
...secure a room before they themselves are served. Although there is no doubt that, if all the complaints and suggestions of the undergraduates were listened to by the Faculty, that honorable body would have little peace, yet I think any one who is unprejudiced will acknowledge that the present method of assignment fails in the first object of all these systems, namely, to secure perfect justice to all. The injustice lies in this: A man who wants certain rooms, and who is blessed with a great many acquaintances not living in the college buildings, gets all of these...
...composed of members of the Everett Athenaeum have arranged to give theatricals at Andover and Exeter to-day and to-morrow. As no such arrangements have been made by that society, such information was news to its members, and they announce their intention of remaining in Cambridge for the present...
...instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were to take the place of the present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that the quality of the work done would be greatly improved. With such help as this given to all the classes, we could ask for nothing more...
After this sickening manifestation of anthro-pophagic barbarity, the Sophomores turned back upon Boston, and the latest telegrams announce that they are at present engaged in devouring the lightning-rods on the new Post-Office building...