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...Monthly shows that Harvard was influenced in her action by the desire for a "reform in athletics for reform's own sake." The precipitate action is, however, "a cause for grave regret," and has given rise to the pertinent questions which are now being asked by the public press. The Monthly believes that the withdrawal was not dictated by mere pique, and that two months hence the same action would have been taken, but regrets that "when it was possible to take this wise step with dignity and in a manner not to give offense, the college has chosen...
...McCall, Harvard '88, at one time a student in Cornell died at his home in Bath, Friday, November 22. For some time he was on the staff of the New York Press...
...This year the football management have adopted the principle of discouraging personal attacks upon members of our college teams through the press. But since the Harvard Foot Ball Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement...
...wish to be always finding fault, but in the matter of senior and junior forensics the dissatisfaction is so widespread that there must be a real grievance. The delay in the issue of the forensic pamphlet and the press of other college work at the time the brief was due compelled many men to postpone the greater part of the work until the briefs were returned. Briefs were returned yesterday and the forensics are due next Wednesday-thus giving only six days for the actual work of writing. This is altogether too short a time for the preparation...
...HARVARD COLLEGE: On or about November 1st, I shall open a school of Shorthand and Type-writing at Harvard square (positive time and location announced later) expressly for the students of Harvard College. I shall teach my new system of short hand, which is liberally endorsed by the press and expert stenographers as the easiest, briefest and most accurate system of shorthand extant; it can be completely mastered in three months and a speed of 125 words per minute acquired. Pupils write from the first lesson. The first week will be free and I cordially invite all students...