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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the day which of all days in the college year was devoted in times past to the exercise of systematic terrorism on the part of the Sophomores towards the Freshmen and the honored customs, once so faithfully carried out, are vividly brought before our minds by the epithet even now applied to this first Monday of our year, namely "bloody"-and epithet which is one of our inheritances from our ancestors. The term has lost its ancient meaning and significance. We do not regret that the days of hazing, of pitched battle between the classes, of unseemly rioting...
...state his views on a subject which is now exciting much interest throughout the college world, namely, college athletics. President Barnard recognizes the fact that much can be said on each side of the question, but his conclusion is based on arguments not altogether satisfactory. The substance of that part of the report dealing with the athletic question is as follows...
...mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What is more likely to happen is the selection of a limited number of athletes, who are supposed to possess more than usual skill, and who are charged with representing the college in their match games with other institutions. Those not thus selected will relapse into the sluggishness...
...Cambridge is not given up to study, but there is no part of our town that does not feel the influence of the body of scholars that have for so many years given Cambridge its fair fame in the land and the world. It is a fallacy to think that there is but one sort of learning to be honored. The learning of the book and the college, the learning of the forum and the exchange, are all to be prized, and we who live in a university town have a share in each. The atmosphere that surrounds the university...
Professor C. J. White has resigned his position as registrar. The office has been abolished and part of its duties transferred to the secretary...