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...distance of Boston, together with the members of the present board, assembled at a dinner given at Parker's. The affair was eminently successful and many schemes were advanced for furthering the best interests of the periodical. It was suggested that the paper be next year enlarged and published semi-weekly; and it is more than probable that this suggestion will be carried into effect. Very many pleasing reminiscences of the early days of the Exonian were related by former editors, and the long past vicissitudes and victories of the paper were rehearsed with a great deal of enthusiasm. After...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would...
...opposition of the fishermen is selfish and unreasonable: Boston Herald, Feb. 25, '88, p. 4. The opposition of Republican senators is factious and partisan: N. Y. Evening Post, (semi-weekly...
...rules which require that the members of every team shall be in regular standing in the college that they represent, will be effective in barring from college sports the semi-professional athletes who have sometimes been allowed to enter the contests. The decision of the convention in respect to the cup, however, is of closer interest to Harvard men. It was the intention of the giver of the cup that it should go to the college which should win it the greatest number of times. As Harvard has held the cup for seven consecutive years, it is impossible...
...Board of Editors of the CRIMSON held their semi-annual dinner at the Parker House last evening. It was truly a "feast of reason and a flow of soul," but it was also a "feast of fat things." The speeches were witty, the songs weary jolly, the dinner was excellent-in fact nothing was wanting to make the evening a complete success. Cheers were given with a will in response to the toasts of the University Foot-Ball Eleven, Crew, Nine, Cricket Eleven and Lacrosse Team. The officers of the dinner were as follows: President, James G. 'King, '89; orator...