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...seldom that we have cause to complain of the treatment of Harvard in the columns of the daily press, on any other score than that of being misunderstood. But in the case of one of the Boston dailies, the Herald, we feel that strong language is required. The attitude of the baseball editor of that paper on all subjects connected with Harvard, can be only characterized by the word contemptible. We do not know the reasons that actuate the distinguished journalist in question, but can only attribute them to some personal feeling. We feel sure that the management...
Owing to the unusual press of matter, we were obliged to omit the report of the sophomore dinner from our Monday's issue...
...graduate of high standing suggests through the columns of the daily press, that the friends of "voluntary chapel" at Harvard, take pains, before returning their nominees for overseers to the committee, to satisfy themselves by private inquiry that their preferred candidates are favorable to the reform in question. This gentleman states in addition, that he is working to ascertain the opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers...
...problem is such a vast one that any speculation on it seems almost in vain. Year by year the College press here has alternately thundered and complained, and the only appreciable result has been that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
Henry Abbot Lodge's "Studies in History" appeared form the press of Houghton, Mifflim and Co., on last Saturday...