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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshmen whose names are not correctly spelled in our list will confer a favor by leaving the correction for the Catalogue at 7 Matthews...
...LIST OF FRESHMEN...
...last "Annual Report" the list of men who obtained Commencement parts in '78 is printed in such a way as to produce a misunderstanding. First come the orations in inverted order, the man who stood fourth coming first, and vice versa; then come dissertations, and then disquisitions, with the same order. Any one would surely suppose that, as the oration is the highest part, the first of those who had orations would come first; or else, if the men are printed in 4, 3, 2, 1 order, that the lowest part should be printed first. We hope this blunder will...
...Crew and the Nine have added two more to the long list of Harvard's victories. At New London the former gave a pretty exhibition of their stroke, in a so-called race with Yale; at Providence the latter played and won one of the most creditable contests on record. The remarkable manner in which, by steadiness and pluck, Harvard won the last of the games for the championship, is too well known to need further comment; it is not to our past achievements, but to our future athletic interests that we direct our attention at the beginning of another...
...custom of making the rank list for the Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight...