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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Green who is to preach in Appleton chapel next Sunday, is the best known Episcopal clergyman of Providence, and is said to rank next to Dr. Brooks in the list of New England preachers of the Episcopal church...
...outdoor sports. But Harvard looks with indifference upon tobogganing and the erection of a slide. Cambridge has a magnificient newly erected toboggan slide; Brookline nightly draws from our number of student tobogganers. But this is all outside of the college. No, skating and tobogganing are not among our traditional list of college sports, so of course cannot possibly find their way into that list. New England exclusiveness must prevail here also...
...CREW BOOK. Unless more men sign so as to swell the list at Leavitt & Pierce's, to one hundred names, the book cannot be gotten out according to first intentions and will virtually be a failure. Let no man say he will take a copy when they are out: what are wanted are names, so that the book may come out before the Fourth of July...
What I would suggest is, that the assignments be made on a general list of all four classes ranked in together. Then an inferior man would no longer be screened by the inferiority of his classmates. Special assignments are, on the whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
Professors Lowell and Torrey have been placed on the retired list...