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...challenging our freshmen to a race, Yale has undertaken to renew a custom which existed about a dozen years ago, but which, for reasons unknown to us, was given up. We think it was in 1873 that the last Yale-Harvard freshmen race was rowed. The question that troubles the Harvard freshmen now, whether or not to row with Yale, is a difficult one to decide. To Yale the proposed race offers very evident advantages, while to Harvard it offers extra work and probably extra expense, without any great benefit that we can see. Perhaps the only argument that Harvard...
Since we published various articles suggesting fitting ways in which to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the university, we have been informed that all measures have been taken by the Corporation for a proper observance of this important occasion. For some unknown reason they have not as yet seen fit to make public their arrangements, but we are advised that the arrangements are nearly completed, and that the celebration will probably occur late in the coming fall. Notwithstanding these facts, however, we would strongly encourage the plan that both undergraduates and alumni take some...
...this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot-gun is looking up another man. Three-fourths of the section are seeking gore, and the instructor has fled for parts unknown. It is feared that in the approaching "Winter Meetings" (the athletic contests), some of the criticisers and criticised may meet, and if so, blood will certainly be shed. - Detroit Free Press...
...memory of the Father of his Country is easily explained. It is simply a natural consequence of that conservatism illustrated by compulsory prayers and the rising bell. When the college was founded there was no necessity for such a celebration, owing to the unfortunate fact that Washington was yet unknown. Therefore, as it became the custom not to observe the day, it has not been, and probably never will be, observed. So much we are indepted to our sometime conservative rulers...
...give elsewhere that very threadbare argument about small colleges. President Anderson, of Rochester University, which is almost unknown, says that Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what...