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...strengthen them. In following out this policy the committee has sometimes been obliged to take some action whose wisdom the students have not been able to see. The result in several cases has been very unfortunate. Last spring the base ball difficulty arose entirely because an undergraduate did not understand clearly the functions of the athletic committee. The consequence was that there was considerable talk even in college against the committee; while outside the college, where no one understood the matter, the committee was generally condemned...
...action was taken by the Overseers on the report, as before this is done the board deemed it advisable that the alumni should understand what is recommended...
...rooms for Class Day. He has found that he does not need all the rooms, and so he is selling the extra ones to seniors less fortunate in securing rooms for Class Day. That such a practice can continue for a moment seems almost incapable of belief. We cannot understand the state of mind to which the man who is denounced to us as guilty has come. We should like to know if the rest of the class intends to countenance this sort of thing...
...extraordinarily large number of entries to the interscholastic games this afternoon show well enough that the sports will be intensely interesting in themselves. We understand that, largely owing to the advancing reputation of the association and to good management this year, the sale of seats is far greater than ever before. We hope that a large proportion of this attendance will be from Harvard. It is not often that the college gets a chance to see such well contested games and at the same time to encourage a branch of athletics which will serve hereafter to bring victories to Harvard...
...pleasant to be obliged again to call the attention of the freshman class to the condition of the treasury of their crew. Ninety-four might as well, however, understand what the state of affairs is. The Columbia crew is already at New London and is gaining a greater advantage over our freshmen by every day or delay. It is the plan of the 'varsity captain to send the freshman crew to New Landon on the 12th. This would be done unless $1200 more is subscribed before that date. Only $1267 has been collected up to today, an average...