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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I wish to make a suggestion in your columns in regard to one of our musical societies here. Please understand that it is only a suggestion and that the writer is in some doubt as to its practicability. He invites discussion on the question. Of the two rehearsals which the Glee Club has a week, one is generally under Mr. Locke's direction, while the regualr leader of the club has charge of the other. This scheme has proved exceedingly beneficial to the club and account not a little for its present high standard. Would...
...think it advisable for Harvard to row Columbia so short a time before the race with Yale, and as long as Columbia could not manage to row us earlier, it is far better to give up the idea of any race at all. The Columbia men understand our position in this matter thoroughly, and they have treated us in most honorable and gentlemanly manner. We are bound to advocate what is best for Harvard's interests, but at the same time we cannot help feeling a little natural regret at losing such manly adversaries. We hope that a race...
...Junior Class, Wednesday evening, will remember the earnestness and deep sincerity which marked the speech of Mr. Pfeiffer, particularly in that portion which treated the question of voluntary prayers and the attitude of college men toward religious services. Mr. Pfeiffer gave the class of '89 plainly to understand that, while athletics may call for a large share of the attention of the students of Harvard, there is another interest, namely, the religious, that cannot be neglected. The remarks of the speaker made a profound impression upon those who heard them, and it must be regretted that every man in college...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I cannot understand why the base-ball management has neglected to take up the excellent suggestion made by one of your correspondents last week, about a petition for the removal of the prohibition on professional practice-games. This neglect is not very complimentary to that management, considering the vital importance of this matter. I fail to see how we can talk about indifference in the University at large when one of our management is so slothful and indifferent...
...students, and this can be done only when the students themselves take an active interest in the policy of the Hall. The extra-order list is much reduced by the committee. This change would demand approval. The temptation to extravagance should be removed as far as possible. We understand that the recommendations of the report have been adopted by the directors and that a new policy was inaugurated yesterday. If these changes can be carried out in the spirit in which they have been begun we see no reason to predict failure...