Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article which we printed on Friday last very effectively answers Yale's boast that she is more cosmopolitan than Harvard; that she is the national college, while Harvard is an affair of Boston, or at most of Massachusetts. It is furthermore shown that Harvard stands better in her own state than Yale in hers; for in twelve years the attendance here from Massachusetts has increased twenty-seven per cent., while Yale's increase from Connecticut has been only nine per cent. These figures alone are very gratifying. But we are still more pleased to find that the number from other...
...annual rumor to the effect that a detachment of Cambridge police, accompanied by a member of the faculty, is shortly to visit all rooms in the yard, in quest of contraband signs, is again afloat. Now as a visit from one of the faculty is always a very agreeable affair, few men would be so devoid of sense as not to appreciate the honor which may be thus thrust upon them. But, as for the Cambridge police, we think we may be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter...
...simple statement of the facts is enough to make everyone form a judgment on the affair. If the man who has been guilty of the wrong is found out, we shall publish his name without hesitation...
...America. About one o'clock, glasses were charged for the last time (?) and at the final toast of fair Harvard, all arose and the song was given with a will. Though this formally ended the regular exercises of the evening, many lingered to exchange personal greetings and congratulations. The affair was acknowledged to have been a decided success, although the otherwise ready flow of wit and humor was, to a certain extent, held in check by the consciousness of the recent death of Mr. Cutter, the ex-secretary of the Association. This lamented occurrence led to the postponement...
...Their view, however, seems due to a misapprehension in regard to the petition. This document is meant to be expression of undergraduate opinion in regard to the advisability, or unadvisability of compulsory attendance at prayers. It maters not where a man lives, he should have some opinion on this affair of general college interest. So signing the petition is as legitimate for him as for anyone else. It is a thing which a man should do from principle rather than from personal convenience...