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...accommodations for the ever increasing number of students. Year by year more and more men have been crowded from the dormitories till now nearly two-thirds of the college rooms are outside. Moreover the prices of board in Cambridge, high already but always growing higher, make it a serious question for new comers and in some instances have deterred men from coming to Harvard. Thus at the very beginning a serious stumbling block is presented to new comers. We need more dormitories, we need large new dormitories capable of holding a hundred or a hundred and fifty...
This difficulty of accommodating men, this question of cheap room rent is becoming serious. Now is the chance for some benefactor, wishing to do practical service to the college and materially to assist those who are coming year after year, to supply this serious want...
...first Advocate is an excellent number. It is good reading from the beginning to the end, or at least nearly to the end. The editorials are delightfully written and very entertaining, somewhat light perhaps, but what one of us is prepared for things serious now? Of the "Two Sketches," the first is rather the more pleasing - it is happier - and there will be time enough for dismals later on. "A Fallen Idol" is good, very good in the beginning. "The dead silence of him who is drinking beer" is full of meaning. The Kodaks are rather entertaining as a whole...
...been said that something like the present literary exercises of Class-day existed from the earliest years of the college, and records of them can be traced as far back as 1648. The exercises were of an extremely serious and weighty nature and little resembled those of the present day. The size of the graduating classes in the early years of the college made the present institution of Class-day impossible. Like other customs, then, at Harvard, Class-day is a development. It was never formally created but grew from an intermingling of several ancient festivities, more especially those...
...orators, poet, and odist, marches, about the yard to Sanders' Theatre where the literary exercises of the day take place. There the class oration, ivy oration and the poem are read, and the ode is sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," the programme being equally divided between the serious and the humorous...