Word: wishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boat Clubs. The results reached by the conference are important, as well as satisfactory to each college. The facts for our article were kindly furnished us by the captain of the 'varsity crew. We are always glad to receive communications from members of the college athletic organizations, and only wish that the practice of contributing to our columns were more general among our leaders in athletics...
...would that all students could share our pleasure in Christmas anticipations, but we suppose some few are compelled to remain in Cambridge, and seek mental strength from the library, and physical satisfaction from the Christmas dinner at Memorial. For the Jester and our associate the Advocate, we would wish all the blessings of the season and renewed strength of wit and literary acumen. We rejoice in the thought that the faculty can now have a few days in which to repair their wasted energies and gird themselves for the semis. We hope that the torture they are about to inflict...
After the Library Council has granted the students' petition for an extension of the time for taking out reserved books, we wish they would make another slight change in the delivery of books. At present the bound periodicals can be taken out as any other books and kept out for one month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library...
...wish to call the attention of undergraduates to the opportunities offered them for attending lectures in the Law School. Several courses are there given which would be of great benefit to all who may attend them; for example, those on "Torts" and "Criminal Law and Procedure." At present some twenty men from the college are attending these lectures, and they find them interesting as well as instructive. It often happens that a man will submit to much more abuse from another than his inclination would allow were he not in ignorance of how far the law will permit...
...setting the whole subject of Anglomania aside, we wish to say that we have welcomed the communications that have come to us, and regret that our space has not allowed us to publish them all. We hope that the students of the college will never hesitate to use our columns either for contradicting our opinions or for setting up opinions of their own. These debates on paper may be conducted with interest and profit...