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...particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged characters who were given a choice before the rest of their class, such as the President's freshman who chose first, followed by the instructors freshmen in the order of their patron's seniority. It will be seen that by this arrangement, Holworthy was practically given up to the seniors, as they would naturally choose the best rooms, it being their last year; but that for members of the other classes those rooms were really the most desirable that ranked about the middle...
...institution rescured it from oblivion. Two years ago our 'reform governor' was the involuntary means of lopping off one branch of the abuse at Harvard, but even this moderate reform was repudiated by a sister college. The fact that a man eats a commencement dinner or makes himself the patron of a college is hardly sufficient evidence of his ability to entitle him to a degree. So long as colleges continue to confer degrees, they ought to consider them of sufficient importance to preserve their dignity, but unless the present 'happy-go-lucky' system is done away with, and some...
...except that the total amount was very large, but not any larger than that of the '86 crew. Such a one is not what is meant; but rather a careful business estimate, such as an applicant would make to secure a contract, or an architect furnish to his patron who wished him to figure upon the cost of building a house of given proportions. Such an estimate could be prepared without very great trouble by the treasurer. The boat club is no new organization, and the legitimate expenses of maintaining the crew are not wholly unknown. The figures of former...
Elihu, the patron saint of the Yale Lit., philosophically looks out upon the foot-ball field, and thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter...
...trustees of Cornell College have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university. The work has been interested to the American sculptor, Story, who is at present in Italy...