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...spring comes, men will be willing to make a temporary sacrifice of a few bodily comforts in order to put our Athletic Association on a footing equal to that of any college in the country. If men are to be induced to forego the pleasures of their Sybarite existence rather by the value of the prize than by the honor of winning the contest (and we fear they too often are), the association undoubtedly would do all in their power to afford the necessary incentive, in the hope of bettering a record which it is too true is only very...
...dropped, or the old editorial board must continue to manage it. The latter alternative was chosen, and the paper remains in the same hands in which it was last year. The popularity which the paper had attained during the last year led the editors to hope for a rather wider circulation than before; and by way of attracting public attention, they issued the circular which has given rise to so much misapprehension. The meaning of this was nothing more than that they hoped for encouragement from the friends of Harvard away from Cambridge; and that, while edited by Harvard...
WHENEVER the ranks of the United States postal service in Cambridge are invaded by sickness or resignation, the students are called on to undergo the inconvenience of waiting until noon for their mail. The reason our postman rather than any other is called on to do double duty is that the Mount Auburn people make a fuss if their mail is delayed. Now where, in the Mount Auburn district, seventy-five letters are distributed, between two and three hundred are delivered in college. The injustice is apparent, and all that remains is to make a fuss...
...next is prompted by maliciousness rather than a simple desire to tell some news...
...rather please the northern winds, which blow...