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...society has grown to fill a large place in the University and it could not well be spared. That the society is steadily increasing in its power to satisfy the wants of the students is readily seen by the great advance in the amount of business transacted during the past year. Every increase makes farther advancement possible. We hope that next fall will see the society starting off with a much longer list of members. Aside from the pecuniary returns which will undoubtedly come to members of the society, there should be patriotism enough in every student to lead...
During the past few years the delegation of Exeter men entering Harvard with each new class has materially lessened in proportion to the number attending the Academy. The major portion now go to Yale, Princeton and the smaller colleges. Yale receives most, and the rest are divided among Princeton, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Dartmouth. Why this change has come over the former feeding school of Harvard many fail to perceive. The explanation is that a student may fit himself without especial effort for Yale and the other colleges in three years, while a man to enter Harvard must remain another year...
...activity in every department of college work and recreation has been checked for the past few days by the heavy snow storm, which has rendered it almost impossible to get about even on the Campus. All outside communication was cut off and a large proportion of the lectures and recitations were omitted. The base-ball cage was filled with snow, so that the candidates for the nine were unable to practice. The universal amusement has been snow-balling, much to the distaste of tutors and "cops." The various crews will begin rowing on the harbor again as soon...
...Bussey Institution has during the past few years become a very important part of the University. Its faculty is fully efficient, and in addition to the usual instruction imparted, much valuable work has been done in other ways by them. It is a school of agriculture and horticulture, and gives systematic training in farming, useful and ornamental gardening, and stock raising. It is especially adapted to young men who intend to become farmers, florists, or landscape gardeners; as well as for those who will naturally be called upon to manage large estates, or who wish to qualify themselves...
Winthrop Talbot, '87, ex-president of the CRIMSON, has been in Cambridge for the past few days...