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Extravagance there is and extravagance there has been for many years, and it is high time that a radical reform be introduced...
Notice is called in another column to the fact that the time during which the telegraph office in Lyceum Building is open, will be lengthened, and that the office will also be open on Sunday for a short time. We are very glad to see this step toward reform in the management of the telegraph in Cambridge. The change will be of great advantage to the public and especially to men of the college who are so often obliged to use this means of communication...
While this innovation is taking place it may not be out of the way for us to suggest that a radical reform should take place in the matter of delivering messages. This department should be attended to as carefully as that of transmission. A case has come to our notice, in which a student dangerously ill received a message from his family, which was not delivered until six hours after it had reached Cambridge...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students, the other a recognition by the faculty, that our best interests can be served by granting us freedom in the choice of our competitions. Which will make the first step...