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Altogether, the change can be pronounced a decided success; and the liberality of the men who engineered this great reform, and who are now striving to perfect it still more, is to be commended...
...tariff legislation with seriousness. There is not a scintilla of evidence that any influence had been exerted from that quarter. It is a ridiculous idea that the Cobden Club has ever used its influence to establish free trade in the United States. The truth is that the tariff reform agitation is hindered because its advocates have not a personal interest in the matter. In fact, nothing would so hurt the British manufacturer as the lowering of the duty on certain articles which enter into the manufacture of many commodities...
...from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf of this society as well as in behalf of the thirsty freshman that we now lift up our voices for reform. The water which is furnished to the dormitories is of such a quality that while it hardly could be said to be drawn from the river at low tide, we are puzzled to imagine where else it could have been procured. There is hardly a pitcher in the dormitories which...
...regret. We have done, however, all that lay in our power to bring about the much-to-be-desired change in the patriarchal system of college government which has so long prevailed at Harvard. Nothing now remains for us to do but to fold our hands and leave this reform to be wrought out by the lapse of time and the change in public opinion, or better, perhaps, by the change in the opinions of the gentlemen composing the Board of Overseers,- or, yet still better, by a radical change in the personnel of this body...
Every autumn hears a wail go up over the degeneration of Harvard sports. Last year, when we returned from the summer vacation, humiliated by defeat, and almost in despair at our ill success, we vowed unutterable vows in our determination for a reform. We all know the result. We can even now only look forward with fear and trembling for the further results. But it is useless to sit still and bemoan the past, if we have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best...