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...racy article on "Harvard Happenings" appeared in last Saturday evening's Traveller. The writer considers the small attedance at the Glee Club concert. "Here." he says, "lies a moral: The Harvard Glee Club will draw a full house in any city it may deign to visit. Nowhere is it truer that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country than in Harvard College. Her ablest professors, with lectures which would be read with interest throughout the world, cannot fill a moderately sized hall in Cambridge." The art of writing college songs, he thinks, has been lost, none...
Wher sea-birds skim along, nor deign...
...love by taking copious notes, and by appearing to be interested in his numerous remarks, you will soon be distinguished from the great body of your classmates. You will be spoken of as a man of marked promise. You will be welcomed by any college magnate whose courses you deign to elect. And an occasional weak examination will be attributed to some unavoidable mischance...
...this question, and not add to the long list of Harvard matters, "what nobody can find out," another one in the shape of Chapel cuts. And if we are granted the permission of knowing just where we stand in this required exercise, we trust that the Registrar will deign to allow the Faculty's vote to be carried out, and save us the trouble of recommending his case to the tender mercies of the Lampoon...