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...students. Such being the case, it is evident that if all the clubs are not flourishing at the present moment, it must be because the students in general are not satisfied with their management. No student will pay $15 a year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs find it so difficult to obtain a membership sufficiently numerous to indemnify Mr. Blakey and fulfil their contract, and how may this state of things be improved...
...probably that by which Harvard Hall was destroyed, including the valuable College library, - a loss which has never been fully replaced. January, 1764, on account of the prevalence of small-pox in Boston, the General Court removed their sessions to Harvard Hall, and the fire kept up for their benefit in the library is supposed to have penetrated to a beam beneath the hearth. In the middle of a very tempestuous night, that of January 24, 1764, the fire broke out, and as it was vacation, and but two or three persons were left in that part of Massachusetts. Hall...
...power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with the graduates, and the experience of those who have been here before us would undoubtedly be of benefit to our boating interests. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. would do well to consider, with a view to its adoption here, a plan which is in operation at Columbia, by which a graduate who subscribes annually to the crew is entitled to a vote at boating meetings and to certain other...
Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...benefit of this well-meaning but misinformed class, the following comedy has been prepared, illustrative of daily life at Harvard College. (All rights reserved...