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...Hall directors seems to be a capital one. It cannot be denied that there is a large body of students who are dissatisfied with the present management of the hall, and it is but fair that their opinions should be consulted. This dissatisfaction has been increasing for three years past and some attention should be paid to it. If two tickets of directors are submitted to the boarders at the next election, as suggested in the Advocate, the wishes of the students could be learned beyond a doubt, and subsequent action can be governed by those wishes. We hope...
This cup has been awarded for the past seven years to the college winning the most events at the inter-collegiate meetings. In '76 it was won by Princeton, in '77, '78 and '79 by Columbia and in '80, '81 and '82 by Harvard. The winners of the meeting in 1882 were Goodwin, '84, one-half and one-quarter mile runs; Morison, mile run; Norton, 2-mile bicycle race, and Soren, running high jump and pole leaping. Mr. Lowell stated that Yale and Columbia were making great efforts to win the cup this year, but that the Harvard association were...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Why should the library be aired at half-past twelve every day. That the library needs airing is unquestioned, but is 12.30 the best time for its daily airing? The large number of the students do not go to lunch till nearly one, and it appears to me that from one till quarter after there would be fewer students exposed to the draughts...
...therefore be more likely than others to become dogmatic, and to be prone to wrath whenever he does encounter opposition. The reviewer then objects to Prof. Sumner because "he has set himself the task of proving that an opinion generally entertained upon both sides of the Atlantic during all past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended review of this forty-page volume. As an instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon...
...Long stated that he also spoke as an atonement for the past. Nobody questions the extent of the evils of intemperance fostering nine-tenths of all crime, with its immense cost, equal to the amount of the manufacturing wages of the United States. Harvard men are always full of suggestions on the reform of the conduct of government, but on the question of temperance they are decidedly shrinking, and yet the question of temperance is by far the most important economical question of the day, throwing completely into the shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil service...