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That the managers of the Cricket Club are endeavoring to infuse new life into that, of late, dormant organization is shown by the series of games arranged for the coming few weeks. If is quite a time since any cricket campaign has been planned by the club so extensive as that at present contemplated. The course of action cannot fail to bring the club into prominence, and it ought to result in greatly raising the standard of play at Harvard. The practice which the club will gain by its games against teams like those put upon the field...
...Easy Chair published an essay by Mr. George William Curtis which defends the late movement to "widen the colleges." He takes the ground that Greek and Latin should be elective as in Harvard. He declares that no one should be completed to "waste his time" in studying those studies for which he has a positive distaste. He claims that the training derived from such studies would be barren in its results. He claims that "a general degree should attest equality of devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further...
...view of these facts, every student indebted to the late Mr. Fredriksen, whether on account of services rendered, or of money loaned, will see the necessity of discharging his indebtedness at once. The money may be sent to Mrs. P. J. Fredriksen, Washington Street, Somerville, Mass...
...hope that all students who are indebted to the late Mr. Fredriken will read the communication which we publish this morning, and be prompt in making payment to his widow. Mr. Fredriksen trusted to the honor of the students and kept no accounts, and consequently it is impossible to ascertain what is due him. We sincerely hope that there will be no delay in settling on the part of those men who employed the late expressman...
Complaint has been abroad of late regarding Sever 11 as a lecture room. This complaint has been due to two causes, the lack of desks or book-rests in the room and the difficulty of hearing the lecturers. The first cause cannot be eradicated, but the evils resulting from it can be avoided by having such sections, as find the extensive taking of notes necessary meet in some other place where there are desks, for example in the lecture room in Dane Hall. The positions that men have to assume in order to take notes in Sever 11 are extremely...