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...Barrett suggested in the Union Debate of last week that the club offer good food cheaply; would have it a sort of etherealized Merrill's, as it were, an Eden instead of the Trees of Life and Knowledge, the Holly Tree should flourish unforbidden. Others would have it a meeting place for strangers, such as Massachusetts was turned into during the celebration, as a smoking-room or a reading-room, all these combined. Also, every proposition ended in a storm of "buts" - as they all began with...
...turn the classes into a sort of Comitia Tributa to vote on the said proposition? Why not start the university club on a basis that shall include athletics? Certainly here is a motive for mass meetings of the members at frequent intervals, I mean, to discuss, and what is more, vote upon the management of the various teams and nines and crews. The interest in athletics would be increased, I would not wonder if subscriptions - to use a money-market term - should become easier. A feeling of personal interest in the teams would be fostered, and position...
...responsible for whatever inaccuracies in arrangement or in typography the song may now exhibit. When we state that the compiling and publishing of "Songs of Harvard" was the work of a single month, we feel sure of the indulgence of the public towards the few mistakes of this sort which the book may contain - mistakes which are well-nigh unavoidable, even where the work of compilation is performed under the most favorable circumstances of time and place...
...highly amusing when viewed in the light of two hundred and fifty years. We know little of undergraduate life of the first six or seven years, but in 1643 we are told that the first commencement was held. By this time a system of government, of a very crude sort, had shaped itself. The first code of laws put forth by the college authorities was known as the "Dunster Code," and its first regulation was as follows: "When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin, in verse...
...whether the college will approve the marking system; for the present Mid-years are its first great and questionable test. And the verdict will be interesting in more ways than one. It will not only show one ideas of the true measure of knowledge but will also be a sort of gauge of our own modesty. For, when a man finds himself ranked with a class, he naturally looks to see who his companions are. If he thinks he is quite as good a scholar as they are he is rather dissatisfied. It is, moreover, obvious that if the majority...