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...faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes and we are landed, much to our surprise, within dangerous proximity - to special probation. We can think of no reason for this change other than a desire to save much extra work at the office - a laudable desire, to be sure, but the same result might be obtained by abolishing prayers and increasing the number of recitation cuts allowed...
...additional $4,500 on him and his class will not seem quite such a bagatelle after all. Apart from the fact that it would be very doubtful if the now beautiful Holmes Field would not be injured by the cheap edifice at one end of it, we are sure that the ball nine and the Mott Haven team would much prefer to see the energy, which is to be exerted to keep the championships at Harvard, displayed in furnishing them subscriptions for necessary expenses, and candidates for vacancies, rather than providing new seats for the penniless...
...enter college. Now, the common school and high school courses open so much more learning to boys, that there is a far larger class out of which literary men are likely to rise. Formerly, at least in New England, any boy who showed an aptitude for books was pretty sure to be encouraged to prepare for college. The educated men were the picked men of the community. This is no longer the case, and many circumstances prevented a boy from taking a college course which do not prevent him from entering a literary-career...
...never must be displayed in the future. If a man is unable to subscribe liberally he has but to say so, and he will be respected for his independence. But if, as in many cases, the refusal to subscribe is based on the ground that the eleven is sure to be defeated, then the college can do nothing but censure such an exhibition of mean spirit. Would the college have scored its brilliant victories of last year if the students had argued from past defeats that the championship in base-ball, in rowing, and in lacrosse could not be brought...
...that which the library at present contains. The reading-room will fill a long felt want, and deserves the highest encouragement from the students. We hope that the plan will be successfully carried out, and that the reading-room when once established will receive that support which it is sure to deserve...