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...disagreeable task to have to-remind men that they have failed to pay subscriptions to the 'Varsity crew. We are convinced that the appeal we print in another column from the treasurer of the boat club will make everybody pay his dues to the crew, and needs no further comment from...
...would suggest that a number of students be made a committee to escort the visiting nine back to their coach and show them the ordinary courtesy one from hosts to guests. The men who usher at the games might most conveniently be entrusted with the performance of this task...
...stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration. The best bit of writing in this issue is undoubtedly a sketch, "Mr. Blanc," which shows maturity of thought and excellent mastery of language. The task of describing a character is accomplished without the usual effect of wearying the reader. The idea of the whole sketch resembles in a way Hawthorne's "Christmas Banquet." Two stanzas on "A Dead Girl" are full of charm; the idea of death being "beguiled" by her smile is such...
...Harvard freshmen found it quite a hard task to hit STRAIT BALLS last Wednesday.-Yale Courant...
...excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that we express the true feelings of every man who has had any intercourse with either Professor Dyer or Professor Croswell when we say that...