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...idea of forming a Wrestling Association at Harvard should commend itself at once to those interested in the sport itself and to members of University teams who desire some suitable means of keeping in condition during the year. At other universities the plan has met with great success. Regular teams have been organized with insignia similar to those in other branches of sport, and an intercollegiate tournament is held annually between Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. At Yale there is a fairly large squad, and wrestling promises to become a permanent feature of athletics. So far there has been...
...course it is impossible to reform everything at once, but it is not unreasonable to insist that all possible measures be taken for an immediate beginning. We therefore commend the Advocate's article and hope with the reviewer that "it may reach the right ears...
Questions of student life occupy a prominent place in the Advocate of January 26. The article on the Student Council is a clear and forcible statement of the purposes and functions of that organization, and should do much to commend it to the student body and thus help to secure for it a high degree of efficiency. There is also a cordial word of welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat...
...congratulate the directors of the Dining Association on the apparent success of their new scheme, and heartily commend its advantages to members of the University...
There will doubtless be a very considerable number of students in the vicinity of Cambridge during the holidays. To all such men we heartily commend the invitation of President and Mrs. Eliot to the Christmas Eve reception in Phillips Brooks House. One often feels in our academic life the almost total lack of personal contact and fellowship with the older men of our community; and the comparatively few attempts which meet with any success at all in opening up this phase of life which is so full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University...