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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - One of the items in your issue of yesterday seems to refer to my former communication to you. Excuse me if I say that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen...
...receipts. In this report I have tried to give only the actual expenses. For instance I paid Mrs. Bucknell for board at training table, $957.00, but I received back from the crew their share (reckoned by the rate of their previous board) which was $547.75, so that the item "board" is the difference between the two. I have done this to show that the actual expenses of the Boat Club are not as large as former reports might lead one to suppose. The expenses of the club for this year, omiting the debt left us, have been $4323.91, while...
...University Calendar as published by the college, Thursday evening instead of Wednesday evening was given as the reception hours of the Resident Preacher. We reprint the item as corrected...
...official estimate of cost of living (p. 138 of the last catalogue) the one item which does not figure in the lowest as well as the highest calculation is 'Societies and subscriptions to sports.' A student may join no society and contribute nothing to crews and teams. I have no means of judging how many are found in this category, but that most of them refrain reluctantly - as betraying either their poverty or want of sympathy with their fellows - I do not doubt. Upon those who do contribute to the sports, a variety of motives press with great force...
...item in yesterday's columns about the date of the Harvard-New York lacrosse game was incorrect. The game will be played...