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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...that the element of actual danger will be wanting, and therewith half the charm of surmounting hitherto untrodden summits. The London Alpine Club imposes as a condition on all candidates that they shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club to form any valid test of the ability of candidates, as it is a sad fact that there is scarce a high hill in New England which cannot be safely ascended on a cloudy day and without guides...
...that we learn that Professor Gurney has resigned the position of Dean of the College Faculty; and we feel sure that we express the sentiments of all undergraduates when we offer him our thanks for the impartial and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled the duties of his difficult office...
When a College Nine comes to Cambridge to play with our own, it is of course necessary to pay their expenses and to entertain them as well as possible. In the old days of gate-money, this was not a difficult task; but the Base-Ball Club, now that its income is entirely confined to subscriptions, finds great difficulty in meeting its expenses. It is, in fact, in debt...