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...lower classes, - the sole remaining sign at Harvard of the enmity which is proverbially connected with the name of Sophomores and Freshmen. Although the abolishing of hazing is not so universally considered an unmixed good among either alumni or undergraduates as the college papers have represented, still the fact that hazing and the kindred practice of rushing have become customs of the past would justify the Seniors, should they see fit, to forbid the rush of the Sophomores and Freshmen on Class...
...glad that this [Athletic] association is prospering throughout the East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education...
THIS can be called representation in a certain geographical sense, so to speak, but hardly in any rational sense, and has the effect of exaggerating and perpetuating those false issues which we now seek to avoid. The mere fact, however, that given sections of a class should hold caucus meetings has nothing in it foreign to the purest democracy, nor even that they aim at securing positions for their candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point...
...judged in the light of former elections and in view of the fundamental principles of human nature. It is absurd to apply the touchstone of perfection to a college election. As in municipal elections, the essence of the plan is the formation of parties, and, in fact, the best selection is possible only when competition is active. The vice, it is claimed, lies in this, that the issues are not raised on the vital points of ability and fitness, but on artificial considerations, as society standing or what not. It is to be observed, however, that so long as societies...
...fine day last May - as a matter of fact it was the thirty-first - Mr. Brantingham, of Christ Church, having occasion to write a letter, was unfortunate enough to use a sheet of paper on which was stamped a representation of a Cardinal's hat, which is the crest of Christ Church. Some myrmidon of the Inland 'Revenue discovered this circumstance, and a few weeks ago Mr. Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that...