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...Briefly the more important ones are: (1) the dress suit is not fitted to be worn in the morning, out of doors and in all sorts of weather; it is so out of place then that nothing saves it from being both ridiculous and in had taste except the sanction of long established custom, and perhaps not even that. (2) The cap and gown has for centuries been the distinctly academic dress; about it cluster all the memories and associations which should belong to such a time as Class Day. It is, therefore, the proper dignified dress...
...reason why the petition for the omission of registration after the Christmas recess was not granted was that the statute fixing the length of the recess is established by the President and Fellows with the sanction of the Overseers, and the scheme of registration is merely a Faculty regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur...
...undergraduates, especially the members of the class of '91, who love class unity and have a respect for class traditions and customs which indicates a conservation not attributed to young men, are indeed loath to sanction any breaking up of the four years'period. No one, however, can fail to be impressed, even if not convinced, by Prof. Royce's exposition of the view entertained by, it is to be presumed, the majority of the faculty...
Resolved, That we express the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduates in saying, that we view the wanton defacing of Harvard's walls and monuments with the most hearty indignation; that we resent the imputation that a deed so barbarous and un-Harvardlike could have been done by our sanction or with our knowledge; but that we believe it to be the sanction of one or two men at most...
...other articles in this number are perhaps less interesting than usual. No one of them rises above mediocrity Charles Turner writes with evident interest of Newcastle, under the sanction of "The Metropolis of the Turt," Other short and very sketchy articles are on "Tarphon Fishing" "Fencing for Women" Tobogganing...