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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The readiness with which suggestions are adopted by the management of Memorial Hall encourages me to call the attention of the steward to one thing which occurs quite frequently. If a man comes from twenty minutes to a half-hour past the time of opening the hall he is told that this or that thing has given out. One day it is the fish, another day the turkey, and so on. Almost every day something gives out. As the student is given an hour's range he ought to have some assurance that, if he comes...
...smoking cars appear today. The first one leaves Harvard square at 6.39, and then every half-hour...
Professor (somewhat astonished): "That is what I have been giving for the last half-hour." Confusion of Mr. B. and corresponding glee of his classmates...
...wonder to me is that a single dormitory should have an occupant. All day long there is the tramping of fellow-students on the stairs, the slamming of doors, the outburst of what is called by courtesy music. Sometimes you hear a man call for "Tom" by the half-hour, as if Tom were some mighty heathen god. It must be pleasant, too, when the indefatigable athlete above you drops his Indian clubs with a yell that suggests the origin of the name applied to those useful articles, and begins to practise the last new step. I have heard that...
...toss, and played with the wind, which was blowing hard. Harvard kicked off, and the sides were so much more evenly matched than in the previous game, that the ball was kept for the most part in the middle of the ground. Before the end of the first half-hour, however, Winsor kicked a goal, - the only one scored during the game. In the last half, Britannia had only fourteen men, as P. S. Ross had been severely hurt. They did their utmost to force the ball to Harvard's goal, but in vain, and the victory rested with...