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Many will have learned with some surprise that Assistant Professor C : L. Smith has been appointed Dean of the college faculty. It is impossible to say how satisfactory this selection will prove to the college in general ; that the future must show. But if Mr. Smith shall prove himself as efficient and popular as the present incumbent there will be little doubt of his success...
...series of sketches, entitled "Causette de Lundi." The purpose is to present pen pictures of the different phases and peculiarities of life at Harvard, and to describe graphically the most striking types of Harvard men. These sketches will appear regularly every Monay morning, and we hope will prove acceptable and interesting to our readers...
...part are now rehearsing several times each week, and are rapidly becoming masters of it. The libretto was written by Mr. Buell, '83, and the music by Prof. Shepherd. The custom of holding class games is to be instituted this spring, and it is hoped that the experiment will prove a success. The spring games will take place at Hamilton Park, either...
...presented at these inter-collegiate meetings, and that among other events, sparring have a prominent place. This suggestion for several reasons we can hardly deem practicable. What would be an especial objection, is the fact that the contestants in the different bouts, in their zeal to show and prove the superiority of the colleges they represent, will be liable to think more of hard hitting than scientific sparring, and what might be otherwise interesting contests will degenerate into so-called "slugging matches." This, of course, would create personal enmity and ill-feeling, and gradually the same feelings between the colleges...
Prof. J. W. White offers to give the Athletic Association a discus, the throwing of which will constitute one of the events in the spring meeting. He thinks that throwing the discus may prove as popular as putting the shot, and perhaps supersede it. Such an event would certainly add a great deal of interest to our meeting...