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...years, and we hope that the Faculty are ready to come back to the full two weeks. The impracticability of really beginning the term on Friday has, it seems to us, been fully demonstrated. In the first place, the students do not get back; the temptation to put off one's return to college until the beginning of the next week is more than average flesh and blood can resist. In the second place, the instructors do not hold their recitations, or, if they do, only for a few moments as a matter of form. We do not wish...
...called probably because the maker was advised by his friends who inspected the article to "give it a name." There is a collar dubbed "Harvard," because no one in Harvard wears a collar that looks anything like it. The application of the term to a hat that was put on the market last spring was particularly unfortunate. It is true that a few '78 men were inveigled into buying the "tile" just before Class Day, but as a large running track, carefully surveyed and levelled, extended around the hat, it did not meet the popular taste here, and failed...
...truth is, I have just been to the Glee Club Concert, and my head is a little turned by what I saw and heard, so I am not sure whether I am doing right or not. But at any rate I am not going to ask Ma. You must put the blame on Will (Will is a Junior and one of my dearest friends), for when we were coming home last night I was right enthusiastic over the concert, and Will said, "Why do it you write a letter to the Crimson about it?" I more than half believe...
McGill College. - At the annual athletic sports of the McGill University, October 24, 1878, Mr. Cuzner put the 16-pound shot 37 feet 10 inches, which is the best amateur American record...
...seen. Having requested at the desk that they should be hunted up, I resigned myself to the inevitable, and sat down to read another book. Presently I saw a resident graduate who attends the course, enter the Library with a pile of books under his arm, and calmly put the two in question on the shelves. Since this happens once, it probably happens often, and I think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair not to do so. The disregard of conventionalities is probably...