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...while the Glee club expects to maintain the excellent reputation which it has enjoyed in the past, the Pierian Sodality was never in so flourishing a condition as at present. Unprecedented efforts, by means of numerous rehearsals, have been made in preparation, and the club will no doubt surpass all its former performances...
...thirtieth of this month will be a day long to be remembered by all men now in college, unless all the signs fail. The regiment, one might better say brigade, of torch bearers which Harvard will send out on the evening of that day promises to surpass in numbers and splendor all demonstrations hitherto made by students. The undergraduates will turn out in force, the Law School has promised a considerable battalion and invitations have been sent to all graduates living in the vicinity and to the Medical and other departments of the university to join in this parade...
...faculty are said to have thoughts of prohibiting its practice within certain limits of the college, that the grass may have a chance to grow. The college grounds far exceed those of Harvard in extent and include a lake and adjacent pond. The buildings while few in numbers, greatly surpass both in appointment and convenience those of our Alma Mater. The larger part of the college work is carried on within one large building which is fitted up in a style which is simply startling to one accustomed to the hard benches and bare walls of his own college...
...telegram received from the manager of the Yale nine last night, removes the last obstacle to the playing of the freshman series of ball games. Last year the '86 nine won the second game of the Yale series, and this year the '87 men ought to try to surpass '86's record...
...copied by other colleges? We are always ready, here at Cambridge, to copy anything that seems worthy of imitation, no matter what its source, and we fail to understand why Yale should be debarred the privilege of following our example if we happen to have any institutions which surpass theirs in efficiency. This intermeddling with college affairs by papers of the class to which the Palladium belongs, can be productive of no good to college interests, and should be frowned own by undergraduate opinion everywhere...