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...above and the mother of his "Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor here made a reckoning to have had for his share...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: We are all interested in the success of the Co-operative Society, so a word or two about what its present condition seems to be to one who has no official connection with it, may not be amiss. It will be remembered that the last annual report showed a net capital of about $300, which looks as if the society was not only on a sound financial footing but was even making money out of its business. But it is readily seen that this balance is not a cash balance but is made up largely of stock...
Tennis, from all appearances, will be played this summer even more universally than before, and perhaps it would not be amiss to say a word or two concerning the new rackets for the coming year...
...auditors. On Washington's Birthday and Decoration Day he sympathizes with us and bewails the cruelty of the faculty in not giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that he expects to take a little vacation himself, and that a slight donation will not be amiss. Once in a while we come in to breakfast and find his face wreathed in smiles, the cause of which we soon learn, when he confidentially whispers in our ear that he is twenty-six years old today; he then draws off a few feet and watches the effect of his scheme...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: In view of the late resolution of the directors of Memorial in taking away our coffee at dinner, perhaps a little discussion of the expense of the hall would not be amiss. The reason the directors gave for taking away our soothing mocha was that it was too expensive. But I fear that they have but an ill appreciation of economy. While we cannot have our cup of coffee, since it would incur the enormous cost of seven cents per week, still some favored gentlemen have the privilege of a private room, which entails the extra expense...