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...melancholy truth that certain students in Harvard College continually violate the confidence reposed in the whole body by the authorities at Gore Hall. When men are allowed wide freedom with the reserved volumes belonging to the University, it seems only reasonable to expect them to feel, from a sense of honor, some responsibility in the use of said books. Yet such is not the case. It is a frequent occurrence for a valuable book to disappear from the shelves just before important thesis are due in some course. The book sometimes reappears a few days after the theses have been...
...BARDEEN, Sec.A cat-boat now being made in New York, has the unusual dimensions of 41 feet over all, 35 feet on the water line, 14 feet beam, 7 feet 6 inches depth. Her cabin trunk is 19 feet long by 8 feet 6 inches wide...
...second eleven should pay more attention to the game and be more wide-awake. The team lacks life and spirit...
...many men graduate without knowing anything about the members of our various Faculties except about those few with whom they may happen to be thrown in contact at lectures. It is very trying to hear some one speak of a Harvard man whose reputation is national, perhaps even world-wide, and be obliged to admit that one has never heard of the man. If one learns nothing else at college, it is one's duty to be wide-a-wake enough to find out what eminent men are connected with Harvard, and for what such men are noted...
...less recognition and encouragement. While the principal colleges would seize the opportunity to step into the position of leadership abandoned by Harvard, many of the smaller colleges would be obliged to lower their standard to correspond with ours, and the injury done would there by be spread far and wide. In comparison with this far-reaching moral effect, and this injury to the prestige and influence of the university, the question of whether the average Harvard graduate evolved by the arithmetical process from the numerical tables of ages shall be a few months younger or older on commencement day, seems...