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...fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold him under a pump nozzle." - Boston Herald...
...three hour examinations and count for almost nothing after all. But an hour examination given within two weeks of the regular examination is an injustice, requiring as it does a devotion to one course equal to that which ought to be given to two. We pray that, for the sake of equity, the hour examinations in question be withdrawn...
...consider the great pains Prof. Peabody takes in this matter of supplying the chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people. These ministers, in many cases, come from great distances for the sake of delivering one address to Harvard men who should feel duly bound to extend them a cordial welcome, and who, for their own sakes, should take full advantage of the rare opportunities thus offered them...
...their training with praiseworthy assiduity; and yet their glorious victory has apparently been utterly forgotten by their apathetic classmates, It may be indeed, that this state of affairs has only existed from a lack of some one to take a lead in the matter; I trust for the sake of eighty-nine's patriotism and class-feeling that this has been the case. But it is not too late; let some energetic man start a subscription, and the college will soon see that eighty-nine is not as indifferent as she may seem...
...present it is but speaking the honest truth, that there is very little true scholarship at Harvard, little desire to learn for learnings sake, and but very little respect for high scholarship...