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...correspondence column of the last number of the Advocate, I noticed a letter from a Freshman, who justly complained that in my report of the subscriptions to the H. U. B. C., only eight dollars had been paid by his class, whereas he himself had paid ten dollars to some person whom he thought authorized to receive it. In answer to this, I should like to say that the account was made out before the publication of the catalogue, and therefore some unavoidable mistakes were made in separating the names according to classes. In looking over the list again...
...LIST of officers elected by the Senior Class at the meeting on Monday is published in another column. To this list Seventy-Eight points with complacent pride. Class dissension has vanished into thin air. Seventy-Eight, in unison and peace, restores dear, happy Class Day at Harvard, and good-will reigns supreme. Of the fifteen officers, eight were unanimously elected by acclamation; the seven others give universal satisfaction. The harmonious, open election has exemplified the high principle that the interests of the Class are superior to the interests of societies. For the service that Seventy-Eight has done in thus...
...only in the meeting of the Directors that opposition to a late breakfast has been made. The Directors seem to have thought rather of prolonging the meal half an hour than of postponing it. On Sunday mornings less than ten men come to breakfast before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half an hour if the boarders so desire. The principal difficulty would be with the Catholic help, whose church-going would be somewhat interfered with. The Directors strangely argue...
...half past five or six in the evening. At this reasonable and moderate hour some of our entries are, at this season of the year, wellnigh as dark as they are at eleven; and yet the gas, especially on Saturday evenings, is often not turned on till seven or eight. The need of light is felt especially in the lower halls of Matthews and Holyoke, and a serious accident which occurred in the latter building one evening last week shows that our complaint is not an idle one. To have a front tooth knocked out by running against a projection...
Sumner was a member of the Hasty-Pudding Club, and it was on his motion that the first catalogue of that club was prepared. When a Senator, it was his custom to make additions to the Pudding library. He and eight classmates formed themselves into a secret society, known to themselves as "The Nine," a title which has since been usurped. From the description of college life in one of Sumner's letters, it will be seen that time has not made many changes, save, perhaps, in the last particular quoted...