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...Boston Post, May 12th.]The little Record is in a sad state of mind because it finds that the DAILY CRIMSON, a small sheet published at Harvard University, is mainly devoted to news about sports. Why should it not be? The CRIMSON is not conducted by the faculty in the interest of classics and sciences, and it aims at nothing higher than supplying items which relate to those outside interests and recreations which healthy young men everywhere ought to take part in during their leisure hours. To expect the CRIMSON to occupy the literary field of the "Advocate...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: In one of the articles on "College Journals," which have recently appeared in your paper, is the statement that the Echo led a prosperous existence "until the fall of '82, when it was succeeded by a larger sheet, called the Harvard Herald, a name that was changed at the beginning of the following year to the Daily Herald. There are several inaccuracies in these remarks. In the first place, the Herald was started early in the year 1882, and its success drove the Echo out of an existence which had become burdensome both to itself...
...some time there had been a deeply felt want for a daily paper that would furnish the daily news and announcements with which a large university abounds. In December, 1879, this want was satisfied by the publication of "The Echo," a sheet about the size of the present DAILY CRIMSON and devoted to the same class of news. It in no way interfered with the other journals and led a prosperous existence until the fall of '82, when it was succeeded by a larger sheet, and of a somewhat higher tone, called "The Harvard Herald," a name that was changed...
...says a chronicler of those days, "took place immediately after the parts were read to the class. The doorway of the middle entry of Holworthy was the place usually chosen for the affecting scene. The performance was carried on in the mock-oratorical style, a person concealed under a sheet being placed behind the speaker to make the gestures for him. The names of the members who, having received parts for commencement, have refused to resign their trusts in the Navy Club, are then read by the Lord High Admiral, and by his authority they are expelled from the society...
...large bulk of water will not only disappear very fast, but will also be swelled considerably by the drainage of the surrounding land; for Holmes Field is on a much lower level than the gymnasium ground or North Avenue or Jarvis Street. Hence, there will be a large sheet of water there, which will not only prevent the use of the field till quite late in the season, but which will also become dangerous through stagnation...