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...second only in importance to the election of permanent officers in Senior year. A class which is carefully organized and ably directed in its first year is on the high road to success and in the succeeding years will profit in full measure by a good beginning. Some years ago when the Freshman president was chosen earlier in the year it was harder to make certain of the right man unless the class was fortunate in having a man on the University football team, who had the qualities necessary for the position...
...University team was able to have only three days of practice on the ice. In addition to strengthening the defence, much attention was given to developing fast skating. The shooting and passing of the forwards is accurate, and if the team plays as it did against Princeton a week ago Saturday, the game should be very close...
...line and they have made great claims for their college. One of these is the superiority of a small college over a large one. The difficulty with this argument is that it is likely not to last, for today Dartmouth is twice as large as Harvard was 40 years ago and just as large as the University of 20 years ago. There is one plea for Dartmouth, however, that cannot be refuted. The exquisite beauty of the surrounding country is sure to have a lasting and invigorating effect on the students of the college...
...Henry G. Spaulding '60 gave reminiscences of the older Harvard as it was half a century ago, before the Memorial Society in the Fogg Art Museum last evening. Many of the recollections had to do with events and experiences connected with the speaker's own class: its fondness for athletics, its devotion to the old-time system of prescribed studies, its literary efforts and finally its misdemeanors, culminating in an actual rebellion against the Faculty. This same disorderly and rebellious class has furnished five members of the Board of Overseers...
...MEMORIAL SOCIETY. "The Harvard of Fifty Years Ago." Rev. Henry G. Spaulding, Class of 1860. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...