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...Junior Class, Wednesday evening, will remember the earnestness and deep sincerity which marked the speech of Mr. Pfeiffer, particularly in that portion which treated the question of voluntary prayers and the attitude of college men toward religious services. Mr. Pfeiffer gave the class of '89 plainly to understand that, while athletics may call for a large share of the attention of the students of Harvard, there is another interest, namely, the religious, that cannot be neglected. The remarks of the speaker made a profound impression upon those who heard them, and it must be regretted that every man in college...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I cannot understand why the base-ball management has neglected to take up the excellent suggestion made by one of your correspondents last week, about a petition for the removal of the prohibition on professional practice-games. This neglect is not very complimentary to that management, considering the vital importance of this matter. I fail to see how we can talk about indifference in the University at large when one of our management is so slothful and indifferent...
...first place I do not understand why men cannot grind up just before hour examinations as they do before mid-year examinations, and consequently gain almost as little from their work in one case as in the other. It is true the constant feeling of an impending examination would probably cause some men to do better work than they do under the present system. Still the real evil is but slightly mitigated...
...students, and this can be done only when the students themselves take an active interest in the policy of the Hall. The extra-order list is much reduced by the committee. This change would demand approval. The temptation to extravagance should be removed as far as possible. We understand that the recommendations of the report have been adopted by the directors and that a new policy was inaugurated yesterday. If these changes can be carried out in the spirit in which they have been begun we see no reason to predict failure...
...since a large surplus is divided among them at the close of every year. That is an inducement to work for the paper, which lack of graduate financial support prevents our having here. There are fifty competitors for the Yale News where the CRIMSON has ten. The Advocate should understand this, since she herself has wept over and bemoaned the indifferent spirit among Harvard...