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...sure to make a marked improvement in the club's work, as college songs have always been its weak point. The rest of the singing is sure to be excellent, as the club has splendid material and has been rehearsing more diligently than for years past. The Pierian is larger than ever before and some of its new members from the lower classes are up to professional standards. The Sodality has not been appreciated by the college ; no other college in the country has an instrumental club that compares with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/17/1883 | See Source »

...some active work among the most promising men, would undoubtedly be a most sensible proceeding. It is most unwise to feel any over-confidence from our past successes, or to let any such feeling gain a place here. Every effort should be made to secure for Harvard even a larger number of events than we took last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1883 | See Source »

...fully conversant than upon one with which great personal familiarity leads him to continually suggest a variety of incidents and illustrations which tend to drift away from the main subject. The House of Commous in England is the center of political life, in it, is vested by far the larger share of the power of the government, and as it is republican in its character and representative of the people, it is of course the most popular branch of the government. Naturally an election to a seat in this body is considered a high honor and as such is sought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR BRYCE'S LECTURES. | 12/5/1883 | See Source »

...begins with the academic year, these difficulties may be removed. There are at present two fees; by the proposed change there would be but one fee for all persons. Again, if the fiscal year begins in October, the membership will be not only more certain and calculable, but probably larger. The inducement to join the society is strongest at the beginning of the academic year, since a large number of purchases are made at that time. In February, under the existing system, men are apt not to join, because there is no immediate prospect of decided benefit from their membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

...occupation, which certain would-be wits have made on account of those boyish ideas that all young men have. But let us not, like our Michigan contemporary, give up all that is good in order to add our voices to this clamor. The proportion of intelligent men is much larger among collegemen than among those voters without a college education. Let us, then, not sneer at the influence college men have in politics, but let all college trained men unite to do their best in endeavoring to make the government of our country what it should be, as clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

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