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...disturbance. The faculty stood by their decision, and refused to reinstate the suspended students. To sustain their honor, as they claim, and to bring the faculty to terms, the entire senior and junior classes concluded to leave college, which resolution was carried into effect yesterday. It is uncertain what the result will be, though it is thought a settlement will soon be reached and the absentees return...
...fence around Jarvis field we could never fully understand. At games which should do much to fill the coffers of the Harvard and visiting nines, surprisingly small sums are realized. The reason is that but few care to pay an "admission" fee for stepping over a certain - or uncertain, rather - boundary; as a prominent paper remarked Sunday, "of the 2,500 spectators at the Brown-Harvard game, about 500 paid anything." A brick wall has been talked of as more agreeable to the eye than a board fence. It matters not what it is, but there should be some barrier...
...generally prefers to decide for himself what shall be his profession or specialty, it is by no means a simple matter to arrange all his work and studies in college in such a way as will best fit him for his future career. The majority usually find it an uncertain undertaking to satisfactorily inform themselves of the precise natures of the different courses, as well as to choose those that are best suited to themselves. And so it comes that men are often more led to complain of than rejoice in the freedom of selection allowed them. For, where there...
With all this in its favor, the advisability of a change would seem to be very uncertain. Our annual race should - like that of Oxford and Cambridge - become a fixture, over a fixed course; as few things will tend more to decrease the number of spectators and the interest of the world at large in our races, than to be continually changing our courses...
...thinking partly of my ill-luck with the bass, - a fish which is, as every sportsman knows, as "uncertain, coy, and hard to please" as woman is, or is said to be, - and partly of the college whose towers rose above the trees before me. I was casting a pretty mystery about its sweet girl graduates, and wondering whether their ways of life and methods of thought were like ours, and whether - still more important - they were good-looking...