Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...conclusion, allow me to say one word about the instructor in this subject; namely, that he does not seem to have found out yet that there is any distinction between a college and a primary school...
...record the Nine and the College can well be proud of, especially since the scores were so largely in our favor. Knowing that Harvard had the better nine, and feeling confident of victory even after two defeats, we are not inclined, after the manner of the Yale News, "to allow our brains to be turned wild or to be driven crazy with rapture"; victory has perched herself too frequently, under Captain Thayer's able leadership, upon our banners, to allow us to be more than ordinarily moved in regard to a matter which such excellent base-ball authority...
...cent. Without considering the question of whether the marks were too high it seems to me a most unwarranted proceeding to reduce them at this late date. The injustice of this measure is so evident, as was shown in the Advocate, that it is strange that the Faculty should allow it. If a Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late for the sufferers to take another examination, it seems to me time for a strong protest. I am not aware that such injustice has ever...
...attempts to serve two masters, one must suffer, and we should be the one; our dissatisfaction would make no difference as long as the College was suited, and we should have no power of discharging. In other words, the College dictates to us whom we shall employ, and kindly allows us to pay her servants. The men who do not employ a scout would not employ a janitor; while those of us who do would be seriously inconvenienced in the thousand and one ways in which a scout is so useful. I trust the popular voice will be raised against...