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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those Juniors whose names fall in the first half of the alphabet, and consequently speak among the first this year, will by the same rule, next year, fall among those who speak in the middle of the evening; and those Juniors whose speeches are in the middle of the list will next year have the disadvantage of speaking at the end of the evening, when the judges have become weary. The present change conforms to the same rule of precedence according to which the order of speakers at Commencement is in inverse order to their rank...
...courses they intend to pursue as electives during the year. No extra hours beyond one (which is allowed to provide for the difficulty of choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down on the list of electives, or unless notice of taking them regularly is given before the date mentioned. Extra hours may still count on the special scale of any study. It has been found necessary to make this restriction on account of the changes that have become so numerous late in the year...
MUCH complaint has been made recently because no rooms in Hollis or Stoughton are on the list to be drawn for. Had inquiry first been made at the Bursar's office, it would have been found that there was no cause for complaint. Only five rooms in Hollis and Stoughton together were given up, and as this is not more than a twelfth of the whole number, the Bursar was compelled, in justice to sub-freshmen, to reserve these rooms for them. Men in college seem to forget that they were ever sub-freshmen...
...glancing over the list of best records at Harvard, it seems extremely probable that, with the inducement offered in the Echo Prize Medal, several of them will be bettered at the approaching Spring Meeting; and as, however wisely the judges may decide, it would be difficult to give a correct decision as to the respective merits of a man who happened to "break" the record in the Mile Run, for example, and one who secured the Running High Jump, it would seem that dissatisfaction is likely to ensue in the awarding of the trophy. The suggestion therefore may not seem...
...silence that love in my soul makes to list to the fanciful echoes...