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...hearty reception any entertainment given by Harvard men always receives in Boston, and the proposed concert would be no exception in such a music loving city. It will also give the men in college another chance to hear these two much appreciated clubs. Moreover, any plan which will lighten the present burden of subscriptions, cannot but be hailed with delight by the students in Cambridge. The plan is certainly a good one, no matter in what way you choose to look...
...days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed or wish to perfect, and the time before their particular examination furnishes just the time needed by them to work in, if the laboratories were only open. Anything which...
...Saratoga to provide board and passes for the crews, and says that college "athleticism" will be very objectionable if it is to depend upon hotel men and their followers for its patronage. This hardly seems just. In these days of enormous expenditures for athletics, anything which will honorably lighten the burden of the students will meet with approbation. Boat-races are a species of contest which do not make any money returns to the crews for their expenses for travel, board, training, boats, vans, etc. While the manager of a college ball nine or team may depend on gate receipts...
...only question that outsiders can have ought to do with is when the race shall be rowed, a mere matter of convenience, economy and desirability, The crews themselves will gain nothing peculiarly by going to one place rather than another, only by going to the cheaper place they lighten the burden of college subscriptions...
...payment of the subscriptions will meet with a ready response from the undergraduates. The boat club is in need of money and it is absolutely necessary that the amount subscribed be paid at once. The manager of the crew can not see every one personally, and it would lighten his duties very much if subscribers send in the money to him without any further notice from...