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...Cambridge Tribune speaks thus editorially of Harvard's prospects in the various branches of athletics during the coming year...
...music by some of their number. Nothing goes on in or out of the university that is not immediately made known at the Nations. They take the place of the college paper in the student's daily life. Connected also with the clubs are library rooms and libraries, and various other rooms devoted to social purposes. The size and importance of the libraries depend, as does the building, on the wealth of the Nation, some of them containing several thousand volumes...
...equanimity is disturbed by constantly repeated complaints of petty stealing, - first in this department and then in that. Within the last fortnight, certain students, as it appears, have visited the trophy room in the gymnasium and have despoiled the pictures of the various crews and teams of the figures that designated the different years. Those who are guilty of this act of vandalism may excuse themselves on the plea that the articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student...
...generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want and despair, and has tided over hard passages in life not a few who feel indebted to him for ultimate success and prosperity. Nor has he been generous in money alone, but in personal service, in the hospitality of his house, and in gifts chosen...
...University is supported by the Government, with the aid of the various endowments. The instruction is free, only a small charge - about $2 - being made for the use of the library...