Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question is the most important that undergraduates have had to consider this year is shown by the intense excitement created throughout the student body and in the very fact that the Corporation is willing to interpose such peremptory and in our opinion uncalled for interference in a purely student affair...
...than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class...
...objectionable features, however, which have crept into the exercises since the introduction of the class member,- these might easily be removed without destroying the essential value of the affair, which is nothing more than a good-natured, rough-and-tumble scrimmage. It would seem that the suggestion of the Class Day Committee to dispense with the number, and also to lower the wreath, would do away with all offensive roughness, and the necessity of forming large combinations in order to obtain the flowers...
...Musical Clubs gave a concert last night at the Union Boat Club, in Boston. H. M. Woodruff '98 was soloist. C. L. Safford '94 sang several songs after the concert. The whole affair was given in a thoroughly informal way and was most successful...
...members of last year's 'Varsity eight tendered a dinner to Mr. Lehmann at the Victoria Hotel last evening. Mr. Mumford was the guest of honor. Covers were set for seventeen and the dinner proved a most enjoyable affair...