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...received an invitation from the McGill Athletic Association, to take part in the latter's autumn sports next Saturday at Montreal. We learn that Mr. E. J. Wendell, '82, has entered his name in several events...
AGAIN the College papers are forced to take notice of the childish conduct - not to use a harsher term - of the Freshman Class. The very fact that the body of students who attended the theatre last Tuesday evening went in the name of the class, should have operated to make them behave themselves at least decently, even if they possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time...
...Echo editorially says that he weakens his point by complaining of this action with regard to Greek 3, on the ground that this course is an easy one, in which the whole object desired is attained in one year. The instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course for the majority of men, - those who wish to attain facility in reading Greek rather than to master technicalities which they must soon forget, unless they expect to teach...
...Senior Class elections will soon take place, and we wish to remind Seniors that a creditable Class Day is the result of an utter disregard of society lines in the elections for class officers. There is no fear now, as there was when '81 was the Freshman class, that Class Day will cease to be a College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution...
...debates which the Union has already had show that there is much interest taken in the organization, and that there are a number of men in College who take lively interest in political matters. In the debates there is one danger that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate...