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Last year the experiment was tried by the university crew of going into training after the Christmas recess instead of at the beginning of the college year. Much doubt was expressed as to the result of such a course and many wiseacres shook their heads over what they deemed the degeneracy of boating at Harvard. The time too, which was selected for the experiment seemed most unfortunate, for we lost our stroke and so many changes were made in the boat that the crew was finally selected only about three weeks before the Columbia race. Yet it has very generally...
...arouse the popular feeling in regard to the danger of fire in the college buildings, but it is not necessary for the corporation to wait for some such stimulus to compel them to fulfil their promise. We were told that the staples would be ready soon after the recess, and it would seem as though sufficient time had elapsed for the production of these articles which cannot take either much time or money for their manufacture...
...Philadelphia and New York papers all speak in complimentary terms of the recent performances of "Conrad and Medora" in the above-mentioned cities during the recess. The play, says the Times, is a travesty on Byron's "Corsair." "Folanthe," "The Pirates of Penzance," "Horrors," "Baba," "The Babes in the Wood." "Evangeline," the Brooklyn bridge, the proposed new aqueduct, the legislature of New York, the great and only combined Barnum and London shows, George Francis Train and "Julius Caesar." The cast included...
Memorial Hall has been made the victim of several "improvements" during the recess. Part of the woodwork at the west end of the hall has been painted over with a dark red colored pattern which does not seem to be favorably received by the average art critic who boards at the hall. The posts at the east end are now being gilded with an alarming yellow color. The new desks and railing in the auditor's office have been finished. The most popular improvement of all, however, is the placing of a new clock on the west gallery...
Another attempt upon the life of the beech tree in the hollow between Weld and Matthews was made during the recess. This makes the third unsuccessful trial to destroy that unoffending object...