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...this fall has been a disgrace to such a university as Harvard. The attitude manifested by the cheering sections certainly does not merit half so good a football team. The whole College should be ashamed of the lack of enthusiasm that has made it necessary for our leaders to beg for better singing and cheering at the very times when our men most deserved that encouragement...
...islands to the eyes of the University. Gentlemen! their chattering teeth exposed to the furious tempests, their blue-black lips crackling and rustling in a vain attempt to produce the sadly sweet notes of "Aw, wert thou in the cauld, cauld-slaw" these shivering inhabitants of a deserted island beg you on their unbendable and likewise un-unbendable knees to clothe them in your cast-off garments. Charity begins at home, gentlemen. Shed a collar, a tear, or a shoe into the Brooks House collection-plate. It will not be wasted. The myrmidons of our little Napoleon, the graduate secretary...
...beg to quote the following article which appeared recently in the New York Times...
Therefore, we, the undersigned students of Harvard University, desire to express our most urgent hope that you will do everything possible to restore to the natives their rights guaranteed by the Treaties of Berlin and Brussels; also, recognizing the world-wide influence of your utterances, we beg that you will make some public pronouncement upon this subject...
...beg leave to call attention to the fact, that it was in order to avoid such evils, that the regular collections of clothing, which have been made in times past both from the Brooks House and from the Wadsworth House, were arranged. Those who have had to do with collections and distributions, believe that through them much good has been done. The utmost care has been taken in investigation and many cases of real need have been...