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...that, in reality, it is open to many objections. It is about time that some better system were adopted which would give every man a fair chance, and which would not be liable to so many abuses. In the first place, the rule is that seniors are allowed to retain their rooms for their own occupation. But they are not allowed to transfer their rooms in case they decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly just and fair were it enforced in every case. But it is not. We might...
Although we live in such an age of modernness and conventionality, Harvard still is able to retain many of the peculiar characteristics of college life in days of old. She still has her college pumps - Massachusetts with her ancient gable windows yet remains as a memento of a former age - and there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been...
...nine are about to leave to play several games, during the recess, with the Metropolitans of New York and other clubs. All wish them success, and desire that our best hopes may be fully realized. We still retain most of our last year's nine, and these men, as well as the new candidates, have worked faithfully in the gymnasium and on the field. In common with most other college nines, Harvard will have a new pitcher and catcher this year, and very great interest is, therefore, attached to the preliminary games this week, in that they will serve...
...spite of the abolition of the standing high jump as an event in the inter-collegiate games, a measure which has been generally regarded as aiming at Harvard's athletic supremacy, we still have reason to hope for renewed success this year at Mott Haven. We retain most of our former champions who have done themselves and the university much credit for the last two years, and several promising additional candidates for athletic honors have appeared, who bid fair to keep up Harvard's prestige. A revived interest in athletics exists among us at present, and most of our athletes...
...some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much as this has been spoken of about every year, we presume that the turf will still retain its place on the ball ground...