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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undoubtedly to be severely censured. But are not these two societies themselves somewhat to blame for their small audiences? To fix the price of admission to their own concerts is undoubtedly their own business, but if the price is fixed too high for the general public can they complain if their audiences are small. It should be frankly admitted, I think, that there are many men who cannot afford the price asked to admit to a Glee Club concert. If the societies make a larger profit from high-priced tickets and small audiences than they would from low prices...
...ball to Harvard each time. Once this was done near Harvard's goal and a touchdown claimed, amid the hisses and cries of the crowd, justly indignant at the impudence of the claim. Their roughness, violence and foul play were inexcusable and wholly ungentlemanly. The Institute of Technology also complain of the unnecessary foul play experienced by them at the hands of Yale in New Haven, being throttled and handled in a bull-dozing way, and probably Harvard was affected by this feeling to a certain extent, especially after the disabling of their comrade, Wesselhoeft...
Lacrosse, in spite of the promises of the papers last year, still seems to meet with as little popularity as ever. But what the lacrosse men complain most bitterly of is the lack of financial support, for so far the expenses of all trips, we believe, have been borne by the few men who are interested in the sport. This year there is still more need than ever of encouragement in one way and another; Princeton has taken a "powerful brace," we are made to understand, and the college at large seems to urge them on, so that they have...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The gentleman signing himself "Greek I." has evidently not been attending his recitations, or he would not complain of having no instruction in German notes. He would know that the last hour the class met was all spent by the instructor in an admirable translation of some puzzling foot-notes. Besides, if the German weighs so heavily on him, he should bear in mind that Classen's is not the only edition of Thucydides, and that no special interdict has been proclaimed against English editions. In fact, I would advise the gentleman to get Scribner's text...
Occupants of the south entry of Thayer complain justly of a man who persists in blowing a fish-horn - he calls it a trombone - during study hours...