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...such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop and see what was the cause of it? Well might it be, indeed, could you but understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets are by It unutterable. A Sphinx? No, a thousand times more than the Sphinx. For what to us is the enigma...
...understand that our Football Team has been disappointed twice this year by other teams refusing to play at the very last moment, after all arrangements had been made. The teams referred to are those of Montreal and Brown University. In the first case the Montreals telegraphed Friday afternoon that they would not be able to play the match arranged for the following day; in the second, Brown informed us at eleven o'clock of the day of the match that their team could not play us at the appointed time. When games are arranged for in this manner, and either...
Miss H. I - really - Mr. Fagg, don't understand...
...literature are comparatively slight in the eyes of certain instructors. We do not think that our correspondent puts the case too strongly. The fact that the list of electives were handed in four months since; that no objections were then made, but on the contrary men were given to understand that English 2 would be regarded as a two-years' course, if desired; that the plans of a score of students are now arbitrarily set at naught, - all this is of no moment compared with a technical objection. It is but just to state that the instructors in English...
...part of a scheme for the further revision of the recitation system. What the entire scheme is, is not yet known, and it is possible that no changes will be made as regards the privileges of the two upper classes; but it has been decided definitely, as we understand, to give Sophomores voluntary recitations. We believe that this is a step in the right direction, and that it is a proper successor to the many advances which Harvard has made during the past ten years. It is a matter of congratulation that the Faculty, in all essential matters, at least...