Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club is not, in the least, an Alumni Association, i. e., a degree or any length of attendance in the university does not give a man a presumptive right to belong. The club is composed of Harvard men, limited to these, but a certain number of blackballs will exclude a candidate. There have been several black-balled before those colored men applied. The "ostensible reason" was caught up and flourished by newspaper men, but the Harvard DAILY CRIMSON should have asked for greater evidence before condemning this "august assemblage which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow...
...have been asked to print the following letter from Prof. Ames to the Co-operative society. The letter will explain itself, and is worthy the attention of all students, whether they belong to the society...
...means the custom for college clubs to deny admission to those whose color may be somewhat darker than their associates. Yale has several clubs to which colored persons belong, and to them no objection has ever been raised...
...while here, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a sparer. The match was made to decide the championship of the two universities. The referee declared the contest a draw, but, as Mr. Roosevelt was unable to come to time in the last round, the championship appears to belong to Harvard...
...speak of sub-freshman in the sophomore class may doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have...