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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must be seen that the question of class feeling depends on the answers to these questions, and I cannot doubt how any one will answer them who has lost the ardor of his Freshmanhood. Then why not acknowledge that class feeling exists no longer, and cease trying to give expression to a creed we no longer profess? It would require some determination, perhaps; the young ladies might look a little chagrined when we told them that there would be no dancing and hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused...
...question of adopting a system of late dinners seems destined to thorough discussion, and it certainly merits debate, for such a change would involve an alteration in the daily regime of every man in College. A rough sketch of the arguments thus far brought forward would give, for late dinners, the consideration of health; of convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour...
...ready adoption of a suggestion in the last Magenta relating to the formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to give part of their time to the study of it. The interest shown at the meeting called yesterday afternoon to consider the question is also encouraging. A committee, consisting of Mr. Stimson, '76, Mr. Chase, '76, and Mr. Lowell, '76, was appointed to draw up a Constitution, to be reported early...
THERE is hardly an improvement for the winter that, for the money spent on it, would give more general satisfaction, than a large lamp and reflector placed outside the south door of Memorial Hall. Now, on stormy evenings, every one of five hundred men must shuffle doubtfully down the steps in the darkness, or leap boldly into the night with little idea where he will land. Ice and snow would render the descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take...
...convenience of reference we give below the names of crews and the time made by the winners in the Fall Scratch Races. Course one mile...