Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...registration of Freshmen takes place on Monday, and their recitations begin on the same...
ATHLETICS.That track on Jarvis or Holmes seems to be a thing of the less vivid future. If the H. A. A. cannot secure Jarvis, let them take Holmes, and have the fifth of a mile track laid out immediately, so that men can begin to train at once. It should be kept in mind that prizes equal in value and beauty to those given last year will be offered this, and will be worth any man's training for. We trust that this year's Freshman class will not be as distrustful of their powers in the athletic line...
Memorial Hall is not like your table at home; there is no getting over that fact. The noise at first seems intolerable, but you soon get used to it and begin to make a good deal of it yourself. Instead of a neat maid to wait on you, a burly negro slams down your plate before you, and hurries off again. It is hard to realize at first that it is necessary to wait a considerable time before getting anything to eat, but you soon learn that it is indeed so. The superannuated turkeys and hens will doubtless...
...addition to the faults of his model, the author of "Hammersmith" has a few of his own. To begin with, his book is much too long; it would take Macaulay to read it through without skipping. Secondly, Hammersmith is unnaturally successful; the author has seen the necessity of giving him a few defects, but even these are such as would be likely to endear him to the reader. He is represented as being lazy about his studies, but the author has nevertheless elected him into the Phi Beta; in short, he is a favored child of nature, or rather...
...what I would suggest is, that the Faculty in future omit recitations during three or four days or even a week before the examinations begin, thereby giving ample time of preparation for all. This is not perhaps the best plan, but under the present system I see no other solution of the question...