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...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
...treating a recent act of thoughtlessness on the part of a few Harvard students. In the edition of another Boston paper that act is treated in a more impartial and fairer light. We hope that the latter sprit of leniency is growing to be the one in which the press regards the college student. Any small undignified and indecorous act done by a student here is heralded all over the country, and, by the time it has reached the western payers, it has grown into an almost absurd magnitude, the real matter itself being almost lost in the imaginary details...
...next to the religious societies the author speaks of the Young Men's Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society and the Total Abstinence League. He comments on the fact that to be interested in religious work does not as one might judge from the malice of the daily press, debar a man from prominence in athletic life. Very rarely has Harvard sent a Mott Haven to New York that has not included among its prize winners active religious men. "The president of the Athletic Association during the past year was also president of the St. Paul's Society...
...Intercollegiate Press Association held its annual dinner, at Springfield, last Friday evening. The following officers were elected: President, Smith, of Dartmouth; Vice-President, Nason, of Amherst; Secretary, Barnard, of Darmouth; Treasurer, Mears, of Williams...
...above associated press despatch appeared in all the Boston papers yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bollis said that the statement was wholly incorrect and should be denied. Some time ago there was thought of some such arrangement, but the matter has entirely fallen through, and the above report is totally erroneous...