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...janitor will have the right in case of the new tenants, who take possession of their rooms for the first time this year, to do the work for them such as is now done by the so-called 'College men,' consisting generally of blacking boots, making fires, carrying coal and water, doing errands, etc., if these tenants employ any one to do such work...
...sincerely hope that the members do not think hey are kept out from any personal feeling; it is right that the entries should be secret, and should close in time to print the programmes, if for no other reason, and never again, with the consent of the Executive Committee, will entries be received after the advertised time of closing. It would have been much better for that audience of two thousand people to witness those five events on last Saturday than to have to go about begging men to enter. If we, the largest college in America, are not ready...
CORNELL, Columbia, and Yale are in a highly excited state over the prospect of our sending a crew to England. Cornell is particularly irritated, as she claims that the two races she won at Saratoga in six-oars entitle her to the "championship," and that Harvard has no right to go until she has defeated her in an eight-oared race. Yale and Columbia are equally anxious to have a race with Harvard, and let the winner of the race go to England as the "champion" college crew. What the "championship" has to do with it is not very clear...
...disgusted to find what a long walk it was to reach the Botanical Garden. Now, as I took this course under the impression that it was soft, and as this walk takes away all the softness that there might otherwise be in it, I think it no more than right that the distance should be decreased in some way. It is not right that the time of sixty or seventy men should be wasted twice a week by such a long walk as the distance now is. Either let the College be moved nearer to the Botanical Garden...
...nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...