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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Apropos of the complaint in yesterday's CRIMSON about the high prices charged for reserved seats at the championship base-ball games, it is in order to call attention to a similar and equally just cause for complaint. I refer to the high prices charged by the Tennis Association for the use of the courts on Holmes and Jarvis Fields. At the present rates it is an expensive luxury to play tennis often. It is difficult to see why such high prices should be charged. The ground is given by the University rent free, so the only...
...somewhat surprised to learn that one of our musical organizations is suffering at present from the indifference or thoughtlessness of its members. We refer to the Pierian Sodality, an organization which has hitherto been not only a credit to the University at large, but also a source of great enjoyment to those who have attended the concerts given in the past by this society in connection with the other musical societies of Harvard. It would be a great pity if the part taken by the Pierian in the May concert should not be a success, and it would...
...should like to bring into general prominence through the columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive...
Yale, with her usual liking for gathering statistics, has compiled the following list, showing the relative preferences of fathers who have sent their sons to Yale this year. The first figures in each case refer to '91 and the second one, to '90, Sheffield Scientific School. Merchants, 39, 19 1-2 per cent.; 23, 25 per cent. General business, 28, 14 per cent.; 16, 18 per cent. Lawyers, 26, 13 per cent.; 4, 4 per cent. Manufacturers, 23, 11 1-2 per cent.; 17, 19 per cent. Mechanics, 17, 8 1-2; 8, 9 per cent. Farmers...
...poetry "Sigillum Academiae Harvardianae" is an old idea worked into a very pretty new shape. The last four lines which refer to the Seal of the University are worthy of quotation...