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With the issue of to-day the new editorial board assumes control of the CRIMSON. It is our purpose to reach the standard set for us by our predecessors-if possible, to surpass it. The retiring editors from eighty-five have done much to advance the cause of daily journalism at Harvard, -just how much can be appreciated by those who have been in a position to watch their efforts to promote the interests of the CRIMSON. To them we would render our hearty thanks for their untiring labor, and from them we accept the management of the paper...
...ability to learn better and more quickly a particular branch of trade than a non-graduate, and is usually much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither education nor anything short of re-creation could fit for a prominent sphere of action...
...transfer of the 'Varsity nine to Holmes Field should give the freshmen a strong incentive to steady work in view of the increased facilities offered them for practice. While the play of the nine has hardly been up to the standard of the previous freshman nines, this should not be regarded in too unfavorable light. There is good material in the team, and a few days steady work will soon put the nine in a good condition for successful work. While the Yale freshman nine is exceptionally strong, and has already shown great spirit in its sharp contest with Amherst...
...reward as in the Naval and Military Academies. In no others is there so powerful a stimulant to stand high. For not only a man's rank, but also his very retention in the service depends upon his standing as a cadet. This, of course, reacts to make the standard at these academies very high. So that, of late, complaints have been made that the Naval Academy in particular was becoming a school of general science, and losing too much its characteristic peculiarities as a naval school. But we think this complaint is unfounded. The naval officer of the present...
...shown in the management of the hall, and for the success which has attended their efforts. Never before have the students been so weil satisfied with their board, in respect both to price and to quality, and we sincerely hope that the incoming directors will keep up the high standard which has been maintained the past year...