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...custom of walking across the grass. Whenever there is a large plot of grass it is almost certain to be marred by a long winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have been tried in vain. There is, however, only one means by which this objectionable feature of the yard can be inadicated, and that is by the liberal use of barriers at the entrance and end of each path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate...
...home for the spring recess, as we are assured that the concert to be given Friday is to be an exceptionally good one. However, a number of students will remain in Cambridge during the coming week, and we hope and feel confident that we do not hope in vain - that the Yale men will receive a cordial welcome from those at Harvard who will be able to attend their concert...
...this University is the growing use of the Library. It may be well enough to show that we have more students than any other college, that we have the ablest professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects...
...Charles F. Adams on railroading. That the capabilities of Sever 11 will be taxed to the utmost is not to be doubted. So would the capabilities of Sanders for that matter. We have given up asking why these lectures are given in Sever, for our asking has been in vain. But we expect to see demonstrated next Tuesday evening why they ought not to be held there...
...utter disregard of other people's pleasure which is exhibited when one half of an audience persists in standing up and shutting off the view of the other half. Neither were the tug-of-war teams suffocated by a dense mass of sympathic humanity crowding about them in a vain effort to bring them victory. The officers of the association may well feel gratified at the result of this, the first meeting of the year...