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...PARKER.LOST.- In the lecture room of the Lawrence Scientific School, Wednesday at 3 p. m., an ivory foot rule, bound with German silver. Finder will please leave with the janitor...
After final grace the dons retire to what is called the "combination" or "common" room. This is hung with portraits of celebrated graduates of the college. Here the dons sit. as a rule, in the semi-circle in front of a cozy fire. To quite Mr. Winsors bright letter, "The propulsion of sherry, claret and port-these seem to be the orthodox wites of the after feast-gives a man something to do, in the gaps of conversation. With the fire place forming the link which connects the ends of the horse-shoe curve of sitters, there is a difficulty...
...January number of the Harvard Monthly discusses very familiar topics: the proposed shortening of the college course, Rudyard Kipling, Jane Austen, and the New England rule-every one of which has had its advantages and disadvantages pretty thoroughly argued before...
...editorials deal with the refusal of the Faculty to delay registration, the unfounded rumor about the Mott Haven games, the New England rule, the approbation of the graduates in Harvard's athletic victories, the rumored appointment of a new professor of Political Economy and also discuss certain features of the three years' plan. The Advocate doubts, as many do, the wisdom of the New England rule in athletics. Particularly in the case of the Mott Haven games the rule should yield because New York is the only central point of reunion for most of the colleges forming the Intercollegiate Association...
...part we cannot see how the articles in question show a disposition to "bury the hatchet" or to "exhume it." We are sure the Harvard undergraduates all desire games with Priceton on the same basis as that which Harvard plays games with Amherst and Dartmouth. The New England rule prevented a Harvard-Princeton foot ball match, but we hope that before next spring some arrangements can be made for a series of Harvard. Princeton base ball games...