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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been shown at the University of Pennsylvania. There is scarcely a branch in which a creditable showing has not been made. Pennsylvania's supremacy among the colleges in cricket is well known; this is a natural result of the location of the college in Philadelphia, where cricket is the popular game...
...afternoon receptions at U. 5, which have always been a most pleasant feature of Harvard life, are becoming so popular that only a small number of those in attendance are able to meet and converse with the ever cordial host. Here certainly is need for reform. The lists at the office must be getting as long as the docket of the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington, and it is probable that soon the man with an invitation to U. 5 will have as much difficulty in getting advantage from it, as the poor plaintiff has in bringing his case...
...auxiliary force to the regular crews. Such a plan, while offering some difficulties, it is true, in the matter of shells, could not fail to reach more students than the present plan of exclusive crews. And in so far as it broadened, would improve one of our most popular sports...
...from Chaucer. While these readings have been attended by many members of the college, yet we cannot think that they have received all the appreciation which they deserve. Of readings in general, we believe it may be said that they are not fully appreciated by college students. The more popular entertainments receive crowded audiences, while the more instructive and more valuable ones are in a measure neglected. We are sure that those who have the time to attend the reading in Sever will be repaid...
...good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...