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...Corporation of the University, believing that some abuses have crept into the celebration of Commencement Day, has recently appointed a Committee to investigate the matter, and report such remedy as they think advisable...

Author: By Class Secretary., | Title: Epigram. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...graduating class be given up. They wish it distinctly understood that the Corporation does not pretend nor desire to act as a god-mother to our morals, but does claim the right to look after the property of the College and the propriety of the day, and they think their ends can be better accomplished by the classes using their influence to stop the abuses, than by direct interference on the part of the Corporation...

Author: By Class Secretary., | Title: Epigram. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement given by the artistic surroundings. Our second objection, it is true, is a weak one, but still is an objection. Unreflecting people might be apt to think that the presence of a base-ball suit in the Hall showed that the wearer had come directly from the ball field. Of course none but very thoughtless people would ever think so, but still their feelings deserve to be considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...defeat sustained by our Nine last Saturday has been the subject of frequent conversation, and various are the causes to which it is ascribed. It is not a fit time we think for moralizing, and saying that our training has been insufficient; nor is it fair to say, as many do, that our Nine is not as strong as Yale's. We must not lose heart for the rest of the series because we have been beaten in the first two games. Both of these games were played under peculiarly unfortunate circumstances; Fessenden was greatly missed in the first game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...because the applause of the spectators is distracting to hard workers who wish to keep their windows open. We have no high opinion of the man who plays on his piano out of hours with a free use of the loud pedal, and we think no punishment severe enough for one who makes a practice of shouting to a friend in the fourth story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1878 | See Source »