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...Wednesday, April 6, Professor Chas. L. J-cks-n will lecture on a subject to be announced. This subject to-be-announced will undoubtedly prove the most charming, witty, entertaining, and brilliant lecture of the season. We risk our predicting reputation on its profound success...
...distinctly to be congratulated on the start it has taken, as well as on its selection of officers and rules. The organization of a new society, and especially of one in a new field, and one, too, which requires a large, active membership to become even a passable success, must always be attended with difficulties. These seem to have been happily overcome in the formation of the Harvard Legislature, the only question being whether the demand for such a body equals the supply, and whether the interest thus far manifested will hold out. A final judgment of this society cannot...
...portion of food upon his plate into triangular bits before conveying the same to his mouth. I asked him his reasons for so doing, but he did not give me a very satisfactory answer. When dinner was over, I told him that I had hunted for him without success for the past two months, and added, "I have come to stay a long while this time, Alfred, if it is convenient to your wife and your dear, dear family...
...Though the paper did not last year fully maintain the standard of excellence which it had before reached, yet this was probably due to the fact that some of the editors had graduated, and could not, on account of outside matters, bestow upon it the time necessary for complete success. For this reason we are happy to learn that the paper is to be controlled by undergraduates, and under their management we have no doubt that the Lampoon will be as successful in the future as it was in the past...
...strongly condemn the rapidly growing custom of lauding immoderately our victorious teams, and trying to find excuses for them when defeated, instead of encouraging them more nearly to perfect themselves, in the first instance; and in the second, of striving to discover and rectify the causes of their non-success. A fault, to be corrected, must be known; and if we make a point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious work...