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There has been a tendency in the cheering for some time past to depart from the long, deep "rab" which, we believe, is the characteristic of the true Harvard cheer. In urging the maintenance of this style of cheer in a former year we called forth a protest from a graduate who wrote asking how long that had been the Harvard cheer. As to this we are uncertain. But there can be little question at the present time that in spite of the tendency mentioned above, the opinion of most Harvard men is in accordance with that which we have...
Although I heartily endorse the sentiments of your previous correspondents concerning English C, I wish to protest against the childish attitude of a certain part of the 12 o'clock section, which savors strongly of a schoolboy thoughtlessness, and is in no way becoming to members of the junior class at Harvard...
...becoming more and more the fashion for play wrights to publish their works in book form, and thus to protest against being regarded as outside the domain of pure literature. Mr. Pinero and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones have already vindicated their claims, and the latest comer to their ranks is Mr. ComynsCarr in his play, King Arthur, just published by Macmillan and Co. An additional interest centres about this play from the fact that it is one of Henry Irving's favorites and it being produced with the utmost success in his present American tour...
City government in the United States presents a new battle ground for good government. Cities afford the greatest opportunities and richest harvests to spoils workers. Examples of this are the Tweed and Tammany rings in New York. Dr. Parkhurst has proved that the police, the body which ought to protest, was in direct league with vice. So powerful was the influence of the ring that laws were passed to enable the police to levy blackmail. Theodore Roosevelt is now enforcing these laws...
...Weld, the Riverside, and the Shawmut clubs. After rowing a quarter of a mile the Weld crew, being in the Riverside's water, the latter rowed across the bow of the former. The Weld crew stopped rowing, and several of the men held up their hands for a protest, which was not considered by the referee. At the start, Captain Youngman was not ready and jumped his slide. He claims to have held up his hand at the start, but the starter's opinion was that it was not until the second stroke, after the word...