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...have been informed that a canvass was made recently among the students of Wellesley College to ascertain their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made...
...intended to afford practice in extempore speaking on topics of general interest. The number of members must be limited to 21. Preference in choosing from among those who apply will be given to seniors or juniors. If more than 21 seniors apply preference will be given to those who seem best fitted to profit by the work...
...members, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane. The sudden death of a student within less than a month of graduation must be attended with peculiar sadness, and cannot fail to cast a gloom over the whole college. It is hard to realize that a man who seemed in such perfect physical condition should meet with such a sudden and mysterious end, and this complete unexpectedness only serves to make the event more impressive in its sadness. To those who knew Roger Crane, and they were many, any words of praise cannot fail to seem superfluous, and to those...
Although the papers of Yale and Harvard may occasionally engage in a tilt in a wordy warfare over some such subject as the freshman ball game, there seems to be at least one subject on which all are agreed, and that is in denouncing the "mucker" nuisance. Nor. is it alone at Cambridge and New Haven, but at every college town of any considerable size these little nuisances seem to make their baneful presence felt. We can heartily join with the Yale Record when it breaks fourth in the following wail...
...mile rows were taken in the last few days in order to get the crews well "shaken" together. It is hoped that the new stroke oarsman will find little difficulty in again acquiring the old Harvard stroke, after rowing a different one for two months. All accounts from Yale seem to indicate that the New Haven crew is an unusually good one and that it is making every possible endeavor not to be shown four miles of rudder this year. In three weeks our crew leaves for New London, so that many days are left for those who wish...