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...national legislation. After gaining from this work some slight comprehension of our legislative system, one is not surprised at the recent remarks of President-elect Cleveland. Said he to a congressman, "How are you gentlmen at Washington getting on?" "Oh," said the congressman, "pretty well." "I don't think so." said Cleveland, quite emphatically. "Congress doesn't work expeditiously. Its rules are simply abomnible...
...doing your duty in thus failing to contribute your mite towards the maintenance of this society? Will it be due to your carelessness and indifference that Harvard will have the disgrace of failing in an enterprise which is being carried on with success at other colleges? No, we think not. We feel sure that, now that examinations are over, you will come forward and avert the pending misfortune; but, because the amount necessary to be raised is so ridiculously small, do not, therefore, think that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society...
...advantages that the colleges could safely alter their rules in such a way as to give the alumni discretionary power to enforce the rules and order on the field, in cases where they could not give a like power to such professional umpires as are usually employed. We think by its adoption that not only could the sole objectionable feature in college contact with professionals be removed, but also more cordial relations would be promoted among the colleges. For the colleges would be relying upon each other's honor...
...after day, until it would seem that there was not a course in college that was not represented. What does it all signify? Does it really pay the tutors to advertise? Were I interested in the CRIMSON, I should certainly say that it paid-paid the CRIMSON. Still, I think, too, that it pays the advertisers as well, or at least most of them...
...namely, natural ability and thorough knowledge, most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake to do what even their bare knowledge should forbid. Some men, who advertise themselves as tuors, are like that class which seems to think it can get money without labor or ability. They don't recognize that if they want good pay for tutoring they must be able to give someting of value in exchange. Why, there are cases of men who have set themselves up as tutors, yet in the reports of examinations...