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...Fine Arts. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the writer of the article. However admirable is the spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased to the proper proportions, seems a needlessly long time and there ought to be some quicker and equally advantageous way of bringing about the same results. If, as it is stated, there are now sufficient funds...
What are the advantages of these contests? They are indeed, very exciting-for five minutes. And the wining class is highly gratified by the prowess of its team. But no reasons of healthful exercise, such as outweigh the dangers of foot-ball and base-ball, can be urged in favor of the tug-of-war. The excitement and the "glory" are the only reasons for its continuance...
...rich youths at New Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light purses of the many. Thus the average expenses of five students may be $1,000 a year, and yet four of them may spend only $500 apiece; the $3,000 flung about by the fifth swelling the total so that the average for all is double the amount...
...uniforms given to one manufacturer. We do not see as the results would differ from those possible under the present organization of our athletic associations. There would, as we have said, undoubtedly be some advantages in favor of the proposed scheme, but the manifest disadvantages would seem to clearly outweigh them...
...present necessity of using the same seat twice the same meal, and as sixty-two men will be accommodated by it, it will materially lessen the price of board. The Directors realized that certain inconveniences will attend this new arrangement, but as the benefits derived will so far outweigh these inconveniences, that they would call upon all members to cooperate with them, and make the hall a greater success than ever...