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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justly proud of its representative team. To the 'varsity nine we give our heartiest congratulations on their first victory in the championship contests. The score of the game on another page speaks for the kind of work that the men did at Providence more forcibly than anything we can say. It is gratifying to the college to have the nine "find the ball" thus early in the season, and it is everybody's hope that what has been so truly found will not be lost for the next two months...
...price raised, if a better quality of food could be thus secured. The unusual spectacle of a contested election at Memorial shows that a large number of students desire an improvement. Would it not be well to raise the price of board by a sum not exceeding, let us say, twenty-five or thirty cents a week? The catalogue of the college assures us that board can be obtained at Memorial for $4.50 a week, and we fail to see why the price of board should be kept so far below this limit. We hope that the newly elected officers...
...mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that not a few, who say newspaper men are poorly paid, speak from very personal interests. Journalists or would be journalists very naturally object to increase of competition...
...Simply through a lamentable lack of enthusiasm. When we think that other colleges of our size are training a dozen or twenty men, we ought to feel rather "tired." In fact, the reputation we have so calmly earned of caring little or nothing for field athletics, is, to say the least, disgraceful. The plan, as we understand it, is follows: - all those desirous of competing will please hand their names to the directors as soon as possible, together with the events they intend to enter, that an open eye may be kept on them and some system of training prepared...
...conference does not meet often, it seems as if all who are connected with it, who have this, the only representative student body at Harvard in their care, might attend the meetings regularly. The conference committee has the best of reasons for existence, but we regret to say that its members, as a body, have not fully realized them...