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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: For some time the impression has been gaining ground both in and out of college that the financial concerns of our various athletic associations, and especially of the boat club, are not and have not been managed with sufficient economy and care. The general opinion seems to be not that the management is needlessly or wilfully extravagant, but that the want of economy arises from the careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing...
With every enlargement of the various departments of instruction announced in the elective pamphlet, the maze through which the man of "no particular bent of soul" must wander becomes denser and more labyrinthine. But this is one of the disadvantages that attends every growth of what modern sociologists term "the diversification of function." The choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover...
...well as the interest, of every one who has not yet taken the trouble to make out a list of his courses, to do so at once, as it will be very difficult to take notice of those courses which are handed in after tomorrow. Pamphlets relating to the various courses may also be had at the office. The freshmen should take especial pains to select their courses, for the inconvenience which is brought upon the instructors by thoughtlessness, is no little matter...
...Boston Herald has recently issued a little book, compiled by Mr. Moore, base-ball editor of the paper, in which is contained all the dates of games, officers, and members of the clubs in the various leagues. It is very tastefully gotten up and has a space in which to score the runs, hits and errors in each game...
...officers on the floor of Congress are well recognized and stated. The limitations upon the power of courts, in judging of the constitutionality of legislation, are more keenly discerned by Von Hoist than they are by some of our own writers. The fulness of the statistics in regard to various important topics is very satisfactory. We have observed but few errors; the author is not accurate in some of his statements about the legal-tender cases in the somewhat ill-judged note on p. 62, and it is a very misleading statement on p. 231 that 'Unquestionably Congress...