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...number of the rejected at this year's entrance examinations - the first ever held - is withheld by the Faculty, but it is reported to be very large...
...races will take place to-morrow. We wish earnestly to advise all who take the slightest interest in boating to enter their names for these races, in which the number of contestants, rather than their quality, is what is desired. We would most strongly urge those who make their first appearance here this year to improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities of the year to judge...
...college. The Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality both begin the year with nearly full ranks. This favorable opening means one or two enjoyable student concerts, and, we hope, a return to that very pleasing custom of singing in the Yard. The energy of Professor Paine has secured a first-class triple quartette for the Chapel; so that the present College choir is the best one Harvard has known for years. The musical electives are well filled, and the Committee on Music, appointed by the Overseers, have expressed themselves well pleased with the work done in the musical department...
...Hall is the right place for them, we are glad that they are to be permanently housed in a public place. So important do we deem these flags that we view with serious apprehension the recent distribution of a part of them among members of the crew. In the first place, the crew have no right to ornament their private rooms with what has become college property; and in the second place, the danger that the flags in irresponsible hands may get damaged is very great. Until our boating-flags can be publicly exhibited, they should be kept together...
Take, for instance, what is regarded as the mechanical part of newspaper work, - the preparation of telegraphic despatches. In this branch punctuation, capitalizing, paragraphing, and the art of clear expression are the first requisites; and when one has mastered these there is so little trouble with the technicalities of heading, etc., that one who has profited by his courses in themes can with a week's practice become a fair telegraphic editor...