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...rumor is in existence about college that certain members of '86 are endeavoring to revive the foolish custom of going to the theatre in a body, and to induce their classmates to join with them in the undertaking. It is greatly to be hoped that this rumor is unfounded. We can conceive of nothing more unfortunate than the revival of this custom at Harvard; nothing of late years has ever tended so much to hurt the reputation of Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning...
...society to which freshmen are admitted is the Harvard Union, a short sketch of which appeared in our columns recently. The annual assessment of the union for the year is twenty-five cents. Debates on public questions are the chief business of the union. All freshmen are urged to join and, if desiring, to take an active part in the debates...
Freshmen who intend to enter in the athletic meeting of the 25th must join the H. A. A. either Thursday or Monday next at 36 Thayer between...
...have before said, the Boat Club can stimulate a far more general interest in boating at Harvard if they will but place in the boat house a number of ordinary row boats for the use of men inexperienced in boating and encourage such men to join the club and use these boats on the Charles. Of course such measures would entail some discomforts and expense upon the clubs, but we think the renewed interest in boating and benefit to the students at large that would result would warrant the undertaking. From such a beginning as this a considerable school...
Yale's refusal to join with the other New England colleges in prohibiting the playing of ball games with professional nines gives an entirely new turn to the aspect of the question. The refusal, we make no doubt, must be generally regarded as an act of discourtesy to all those colleges which have joined in the agreement, and especially a slight upon Harvard, where the movement originated. Of course the Yale faculty has a perfect right to settle its own regulations in regard to athletics in the way it deems wisest; but nevertheless it is undoubtedly an act of rudeness...