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...opened the present collegiate year in its recently completed building, under very auspicious circumstances. The college building, a large and commodious one, fronting on Somerset street, is a model of convenience, and, located as it is in the very heart of the city, the facilities offered the student in various directions are very great. It is equipped with the most modern appliances, and contains numerous rooms for recitation, lectures and study, a chapel, a large hall, and two gymnasia. The new students this fall numbered about fifty...
Captain Perkins has requested the various class captains to hand him the names of men on their crews who are willing to form a second university eight to row after the class races...
...glee clubs are singing songs "immoral" or "impure" or "worthy of a low variety theatre," as for instance the 'Pope,' and in endeavoring to find which writer had said the other was "no gentleman." And while of course we deem it ridiculous to claim that the clubs of the various colleges are singing songs either "immoral" or "impure," still it is remarkable how few new songs are coming into general favor. Why is it that there are no new songs written as taking in their melodies as the old ones? Or rather why is it that such songs...
...community as ours there can be no dearth of news, athletic or otherwise, and if the men who frequent the gymnasium would be on the lookout for facts there about our crews and other teams the athletic interest would be well cared for, while the men in the various departments of the university might see to it that all news relating to their work and courses should reach us. Moreover, in a college supporting so many different societies, there ought to be a large amount of society news, but the secretaries are extremely backward in sending us reports of meetings...
...Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower house of the Legislature...