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...Glee Club are to be hereafter excused from Rhetoricals. "The entire Musical Association is to be divided into three classes, members of the Glee Club constituting the first class, all those who can read music readily, including the members of the elementary class of last year, compose the second class, and the remainder the third class. The best singers in the second class will be advanced into the Glee Club whenever vacancies occur, and the third class will be merged into the second as rapidly as possible...
Going down DeWolf Street, where it makes a turn to the left, the broad crimson banner of the boat-club caught my sight. I thought of the time, about a year ago, when, at its first unfurling, one of Harvard's dashing old oars predicted that it would be the harbinger of victory; and, in spite of my apathy, I could not help feeling proud that the prediction had come to pass. The bright folds were now stretched by the wind, and showed the dear old word to which, when we are out of Cambridge, we all so fondly cling...
...sixes and fours had put off, and were rowing down the river. These, with the few singles, suggested what a lively sight there might be if the fifty or sixty boats that are lying on the rests were on the river, and a few hundred more students of "the first University in the country" would think it a greater accomplishment to swing an oar than to roll a cigarette...
Since my return from the seaside, where I have been studying the arrangement of "clouds," and the effect of moonlight on the complexion, I have been making the necessary preparations for my long, and, it is to be hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack...
...first match game of the season was played with the Tufts Eleven Tuesday last on the Union grounds, Boston. The day was unusually clear, with only a slight breeze blowing from the northwest, - a perfect day for foot-ball. If the weather had been fair on Saturday, the day originally appointed for the game, the grounds would have been well filled; as it was, there were about 1,000 present...