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...order to put the question of plank walks in the Yard to a test, we have to-day placed a subscription-book at Sever's. It will remain there for two weeks, unless a sufficient amount is subscribed before that time. All who have had reason to complain of the shameful condition of the walks so far - and who has not? - are urged to subscribe at once, and in order to save the trouble and delay of collecting subscriptions, to pay when they put down their names. The money will be returned in case the subscription fails. It is useless...
...seem wholly needless to call attention to the fact that all are interested in the use of the bulletin boards, and that it is therefore undoubtedly desirable that notices should be allowed to remain where they can be easily read, so long as they are valid; but notices of importance have repeatedly been covered, of late, before the date of the occasion for which they were posted, by other notices of subsequent date. This obviously should not be. Nor, on the other hand, should notices be allowed to remain on the boards after losing validity, as is still often done...
...dear fellow," thought I, "if you continue to be as great an ass as you are now, your pictures will probably remain undecorated, unless you should go to France, and compete for the medal of which La Marjolaine got such a number; and even then, you might not succeed. Again, why have any pictures that don't 'amount to much'? Your wall-paper, which is not intolerably ugly, is better than a bad print." This is what I thought. I only said, "Though the Art Club does not generally admit Freshmen to its hilarious meetings, your room is evidence that...
...signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than the greatest profusion of cheap trash...
...crowded enough already, and would not consent to this plan, even if the Directors were in favor of it. It is evident, however, that something must be done soon if those who have already left are to be brought back, or even if all of those who still remain are to be kept...