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...very large portion of the Faculty and representatives of the Corporation and Board of Overseers. Everything has been done by the authorities to make the affair pleasant and profitable and its success or failure is now in the hands of the new comers. They can make it or spoil it as they choose to attend or stay away. The man who purposely stays away is either so snobbish that he won't go or so timid that he's blind, and in either case he's much better outside of such a gathering and outside the college. Every...
...Last Days of the World." This installment is much like the last, interesting and fanciful, yet with nothing absolutely impossible. A very interesting article is "American Society in Paris" by Mary Ford. Its best feature is the number of pictures of the leading American ladies of Paris. "The Spoil of the Puma" is a capital hunting story of the West. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson contributes a brief study of Herrick Ibsen's poems in which is supplemented a portrait of Ibsen. "Crinoline Folly," is a sketch of the crinoline fashion in the past and the present and is very well illustrated...
...better men in the society have steadily worked for its improvement. Years ago they succeeded in making the branding at the initiation optional, and before Mr. Garrison's letter appeared that part of the initiation had been abolished altogether. The newspapers with their usual disregard for facts which spoil the sensational element in their news have failed to discover these facts and many others, and consequently have gone wide of the truth in much that they have said in this matter. The Overseers have seen fit practically to leave the work of reform in the hands which have begun...
...winning it. The victory must not be lost through lack of hearty support from the class. Every Ninety-five man should be stirred by the thought of the long series of freshman victories which Harvard has won and he should be determined that his own class should not spoil the record through any weakness of class loyalty...
...here and only wanted one thing, victory. This year nothing is lacking. We have come from third place to first. Cliques. societies, and clubs have been disfegarded and we have put a representative Harvard eleven in the field. It has won, but our black board did as much to spoil Yale's round-the-end play as practice on Jarvis and in the gymnasium...