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...announced in our news columns this morning, that President Eliot has decided that he will be unable to accept the invitation extended to him by the Union. We think that we but echo the general opinion of the students, when we say that this decision is a cause for sincere regret...
...very fitting that a society of college students, working for ability to express themselves before an audience, should invite their college president, who has won an extended reputation as a public speaker, to address them. But, if such an invitation was appropriate, it was still more appropriate, we think, for President Eliot, interested as he is in the growth of college institutions that are practical, to comply with this invitation, and thus encourage a society that is doing more toward fitting the students of Harvard to take positions of influence after graduation, than many of the courses in the elective...
...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...
...accomplish the end it has in view, must have the utmost confidence and sympathy of the students at large, and the moment it ceases to have this, it fails in its object. As a means of communication, it is not of so much consequence what the faculty may think of it, but how it is regarded by the students, whether or not it reflects their sentiments and their desires...
...know them; but talk also how odd, how inconstant, how impetuous, how much accustomed to women of intrigue. Ask gravely, Pray don't you imagine there is something of madness in that family? Talk of my various travels-German princes-Voltaire and Rousseau. Observe her well. See, how amiable! Think of me as the great man at Adamtown-quite classical...