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...Christmas eve the students who remain in Cambridge will have a chance to call upon one of our most popular professors and we venture to predict that a large number will avail themselves of this opportunity. These informal receptions are what we need here to bring student and professor into closer contact than can be got through the medium of the lecture room. They tend to bridge over the gap which lies between the instructor and his pupils. It is unfortunate that in the case of Prof. Norton, the date fixed for the reception comes at a time when...
...even if men do not care to avail themselves of the advantages offered for speaking, no little useful information and not a few ideas well worth hearing, will make it pay for anyone to attend the Union debates...
...words in regard to the excellent roads in the vicinity for walking. Those who are especially fond of walking will doubtless discover this fact for themselves, if they have not done so already. But others, who are not so devoted to pedestrians would, I am sure, avail themselves of this exhilarating autumn weather did they know of the delightful walks near here. Good views of the country may be had from Tufts College and Corey's Hill, either of which places is not over three miles distant. Middlesex Fells is a wide tract of woodland some distance beyond Tufts. Concord...
...with Columbia twelve seconds later, which is equivalent to about four lengths. The New York boys were crawling up a little, but though their supporters encouraged them most enthusiastically, it was of no avail. Harvard had too much reserve power. As the crews neared the three-mile flag, one began to realize that very fast time was being made, and many conjectures were expressed as to whether or not the record would be broken. Harvard was still pulling her 33 strokes a minute, while Columbia, who had reduced her competitors' lead to three lengths, was desperately struggling to crawl...
...course which they have marked out as right for themselves, but wrong for others? In order that the evil here may be eradicated we appeal to all to remember the privileges of all the students and not their own private desires alone. If our appeal will prove of no avail, the matter will be with the college authorities who we trust will make an example of whom ever they find resorting to the mean tactics which have been displayed hitherto...