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Whatever opinions may be held relative to the abolition of managership competitions, there can be no two views on athletic subscriptions. The beginning of each College year witnesses the visitations of swarms of collectors, who infest all quarters of Cambridge, making themselves objectionable everywhere. Things have come to such a pass that upperclassmen, realizing the small part subscriptions play in supporting the teams, seldom receive the collectors with civility, and still more seldom with charity. The baffled harpies are driven to "bleeding" guileless Freshmen, haunting their rooms during the first two or three days in order to catch them before...
...visited most of the countries of the Orient, where he has had unusual opportunities for acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...
...correspondent Mr. Moore visited the Balkan frontier and saw much of the fighting, which consists of a continual guerrilla warfare among the brigands, who infest the region, and ceaseless war between the Moslems and Trucks. The pictures show the country and many scenes of actual fighting...
...forced to stomach a good many unpleasant doses. But it does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond...
Many complaints have been made already in respect to the crowd of news boys who infest the steps and transept of Memorial at dinner time. There are many remedies for this troublesome custom. The simplest one is to have a stand or desk placed near the door and have all the evening papers sold there, and there only, by a couple of boys, under the control of some reliable news dealer. The management of the Hall promises to keep the transept clear of boys, if the students will help by buying their papers at the stand, and there only...