Word: beene
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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But touching the important question of Prayers and Recitations, in regard to which such futile hopes have been raised, reform, here needed if at all, is inactive. A plan is rumored of, to give those men whose perpetual standing is eighty per cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance...
It has been told me that a classmate was exceedingly pleased with a story, which finally lost its point by the frequent repetitions he gave it. His friends wished to turn him from the error of his ways. Consequently, one day when at dinner and engaged in the recital of...
These, then, are our long-looked-for reforms. A resignation by the Sophomores of their time-honored prerogatives; forty cents' worth of old examination-papers done up in book-form; the right to smoke in the holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and...
How mortifying this should be to those prophets of the press above mentioned! We would earnestly thank those journals who have wasted ink and paper in such fruitless speculations, for their kindly interest in Harvard's future. We thank them, inasmuch as we believe their intentions to have been good...
EACH decade of college life brings forth new words, the derivation, meaning, and correct application of which are often distorted; one year they may express one thing, and the next fall into disuse. The word which forms the caption of this article, since it is turned from its usual signification...