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W.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.: - From all the injustices which fill our lives both in the outside world and in college you may be surprised that I should select such a trifling one for mention as the following may appear to be. But I assure you, to me it does not seem so unimportant. We have here in college a praise-worthy zeal in preserving quiet and order; but we also take a curious way to apply it. For instance, all disturbances in a private room are instantly checked, the moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor...
...meeting of the Cricket Association last evening, Messrs. Dexter, '90, Quinby '87, and Norman, '90, were appointed a committee to select new grounds. A club for winter practice is to be started at Mechanics' Hall, Boston. Most of the members of the 'varsity and newly organized freshman team have joined. A match will be played on Friday at 12 o'clock, on the Longwood grounds, between the 'varsity and freshman elevens...
...seats as they should, were entirely prevented from obtaining a view of some of the most interesting plays. A crowd is always selfish and the only way to keep men within bounds is to appoint several leaders to restrain them. If the captain of the eveven would kindly select six or seven ushers or clerks of the grounds at the next game, he would add a great debt to the comfort of the college at large, as well as give his team a better chance to make fine plays...
...Inter-collegiate Tennis tournament will begin Oct. 13 at New Haven. The executive committee of the Tennis Association has decided to hold the latter part of this week, probably Thursday and Friday, an invitation tournament in order to select Harvard's representatives. The tournament for the championship of the college will be held later in the fall...
...constantly in the receipt of specimens from the fish commission for somerclature and analysis. Several new species bear his name - a great compliment in scientific circles. In the room adjoining his own he showed us thousands of jars of preserved reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause of science, to be rudely dragged forth, condemned as "common" and haled to the offal-dock. Alcohol has been the ruin of nearly every reptile that...