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...Memorial, for the interest he manifested in the Thanksgiving dinner. The success attained, in the arrangement of details of planning, cooking and serving, was due to his voluntary interest and personal superintendendence, not to any formal orders from the Board of Directors as some of the Boston papers seem to have supposed...
...every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds do not seem to have any after, except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses...
...usual places. Never before has the volume been so promptly published, and because it appears thus early it will be all the more valuable to the college. After an examination of an advance copy, obtained by the CRIMSON through the courtesy of the editor, the following matters seem worthy of note...
...almost valueless. Of last year's crew, five men are now in college who intend to row this year. Mumford, Keyes, Brooks, Burgess and Colony. These men are all '87, while Alexander, Remington, and Ayer of last year's substitutes are also '87. At first glance it would seem as if '87 would be almost able to row the 'varsity crew as her representative in the class races. There are a number of last year's successful freshman crew who are trying for positions on the 'Varsity, Adams, Porter, Butler, Bradlee and Wood, ex-captain of the '88 crew...
...fact that Cornell has established voluntary chapel attendance recalls to us the fate of our chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly...