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...this might easily have been done yesterday. I would suggest that the CRIMSON reprint the songs as a supplement to Saturday's issue and urge every man to take a copy with him to the game and follow the band with the songs. Moreover, the ushers, 250 in number, could site together after the game has begun and lead in the singing. This would insure one solid body of men, and the others scattered through the stands would readily join in. The Yale men have arranged to do this, and the least we can do is to make an effort...
...Bestwick, formerly with A. Shuman & Co. Enlarged quarters for the tailoring department were secured in Lyceum Hall. The old arrangement for handling furniture, by piloting customers to different warerooms in Boston, seemed objectionable; and a furniture department with samples was this fall opened in Dane Hall. The number of affiliated dealers was nearly doubled. The board already feels a justification for these changes. From the opening of College this fall up to the first of November, this increase in sales over the corresponding period of last year aggregated upwards of ten thousand dollars
...catalogue of Williams College gives the total number of students as 386, the largest in the history of the institution. Of these, 25 are graduate students, 83 seniors, 76 juniors, 78 sophomores, and 89 freshmen...
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize...
...presence of the body of undergraduates at the football practice yesterday had the effect of livening up the playing considerably. It was difficult, however, to get any idea of the playing of the team as a whole, on account of the number of substitutes who were in the game. The only members of the team who played throughout the practice were Burden and Lawrence...