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...haunches erect...
...time is ripe, too, for the College to pay heed to the appeal of its Southern graduate, and to erect tablets to the memory of Harvard graduates who perished in the Confederate cause. Indeed, many late actions of the College are inconsistent with any other course. Last summer our President entertained in Memorial Hall itself a company which had served in the Confederate service, and no "builder" censured him; this same company we students cheered in the yard, and I am sure no one of us is ashamed of so doing. Thus have we acted towards the Southern living...
...give a notion of the expenses of the Club, we will quote from a letter recently sent us by one of its members. Subscribers of course expect seats, and it is necessary to erect them temporarily for each match. The person who bought the seats last year finds it impossible to erect them for a single day at a smaller price than $75, - three times what he gave for them. To prevent non-subscribers from occupying the seats, it has been found necessary to rope in a portion of the field, and to hire police-officers to guard it against...
...reports that come to us represent the new building which Trinity College is to erect as an architectural wonder. It is to be constructed for a combination of purposes, - Chapel, Library, Dormitory, etc., all under one roof; the whole to be finished in 1877, at a cost of about one million...
...should be given to the students at a nominal price. There is no more valuable exercise than boxing, regarded as a method of gymnastic training; and it is really a useful accomplishment. Fencing trains the eye and will, develops the figure, throws back the shoulders, and gives a more erect and graceful carriage. In all European colleges, fencing is considered a most important element of perfect education. In the Swiss college towns, all riding-masters and maitres-d'armes are required to give lessons at half-price to the students. Harvard has taken the lead in adopting what is good...