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JUNIORS who desire to anticipate the prescribed rhetoric of the second term must send blank-books to the Dean's office on or before January 15. The examination will be held in U. E. R. at 11 o'clock on the 22d January...
...Wendell Goodwin, '74, hoped that the matter would be fully discussed before the question was decided. He admitted that the action of the last convention had been childish in the extreme; but he thought that the meeting should consider three points: First, Is it right for Harvard to withdraw? Second, Would it be better for her to withdraw? Third, Would it not be better for the general rowing interests of all the colleges that she should withdraw...
...under other circumstances would really have some weight, but at present it is useless. It is expected that Princeton's captain, who wishes to withdraw, will succeed in persuading his college to join Harvard, and it is possible that there may be one other college, Columbia; and, in the second place, no one can deny that a different spirit is coming over Yale in respect of her relations with Harvard. It is absurd to think that the experience of the last four years, and the annoyances borne by Harvard and Yale, have been completely thrown away; and that the colleges...
...rifle-match which took place on Saturday last (an account of which will be found in another column) was, we believe, the second match of the kind that has taken place in Cambridge. The result of the match shows but one thing, namely, the great need of a club which will afford its members opportunities for constant practice. The highest score on Saturday - 36 out of a possible 50 - was none too high, and if the rifle club of which we spoke in a recent number is formed this winter, we hope to see very much better shooting done...
...smiles and kind word bring profit only to her employer, and now and then a tear to her own eye. Of course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets...