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...upon the advisability of such a measure. The number, however, in which this editorial appeared was published in August, and in all probability our Harvard and Yale exchanges failed to observe it. We therefore are desirous of presenting the case again, with the conviction that our esteemed contemporaries will bestow upon it their mature deliberation. The advantages of this consolidation are obvious, though, for the benefit of those who have failed to give the question proper thought, we will enumerate one or two of the most salient features. The first, and indeed most important consideration, is the triple interest such...
...editors of the CRIMSON consider it their duty to guard the interests of all institutions at college with a watchful eye. If anything is found amiss, it is censured; if anything deserves commendation, no one is more eager than the CRIMSON to bestow praise. We have expressed our opinion, and, we think, the sentiments of the college about some of the radical faults of our foot ball system. We have another suggestion, which, if acted upon, we think would work a great change in our method of playing foot ball. It is this. Mr. Lathrop, the trainer, has been engaged...
...small fortunes in the unsuccessful attempt to tutor through the required examinations. After all, the new departure is a good one. It is a change which the modified requirements of the present freshman year warranted the faculty in making. It would be manifestly unfair to compel a student to bestow twice the labor up on the attainment of a degree which is required from the most fortunate underclassman...
...beauty in authors who receive high praise. Tastes differ, and some of these authors may in themselves be unfitted for us. Another disturbing influence is that caused by critical students of the history of literature, (especially Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This experience comes to every...
...chamlet I like very well, both cullor and stuff. Let your stokens be always of the same culler of your cloths, and I hope you now were Spanisch leather shows. If your tutor does not intend to bye your silke stokens to wear with your silke shute,..I will bestow a peare on you." This same good lady also sends to her fortunate son a "turky pye with two turky...