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...Harvard freshmen this afternoon promises to be one of the most interesting events of the season. Although we have often been taught not "to count our chickens before they are hatched," we predict the success of the home nine with no small degree of confidence. The freshman faculty, we understand, are to lend eclat to the occasion by their presence; and what strength should not this circumstance alone inspire! As an appropriate climax to so famous a victory, the freshmen will make a triumphant entry into the city. The line of march will be the most direct route...
...that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...quite premature. It is ridiculous to find fault with the management because a vacancy of only a month's standing has not been already filled. The position of steward is a responsible and important one and as such can not be filled at a moment's notice. We understand that there have been numerous applicants for the position, whose credentials and recommendation must be thoroughly examined before an appointment is made. It has taken several years to get the present steward out, and it is fitting therefore that we should be careful in the appointment of his successor...
...members of the annex will meet at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Pach's studio to be photographed. The remainder of the afternoon, we understand, has been reserved for the process and we publish this notice that every student may have fair warning. Any Harvard man entering the premises during the time specified will do so at his peril...
...understand that a committee from the corporation and from the board of overseers has been considering the question of a radical change in the requirements for admission to the college as well as a corresponding change in making the work of the freshman year wholly or in part elective. The measures proposed in regard to requirements for admission are truly startling in their character, and if adopted, as the committee propose, seem destined to inaugurate nothing less than a revolution in collegiate education in America. These plans include nothing less than the entire abolition of all requirements in Greek...