Word: bits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Here is a suggestion for seniors and the Class Day Committee. Would it not be a wise change to have all the "mortar boards" worn on Class Day fitted with crimson instead of black tassels? Not only would each man prize his cap more highly for the bit of crimson on it, but the sombreness of too much black would be relieved and the whole effect would be more picturesque...
...Hers," by E. G. Knoblauch '96, is very fairly done, though its misery is rather long drawn out. The number closes with a bit of verse by H. J. Holt '98, "The Virgin Prairie," which, though it lacks the atmosphere the author has tried to give it, is a creditable piece of work...
...gradually dying out and is already nothing like as strong as it is in most other American colleges, it does seem that in this case, where no expense is incurred, even those men who do not care anything for a complete class album, might put themselves out a bit for the sake of those...
Stevenson was not an Oxford man, but an idle student at a poor University of Edinburgh, where he occupied himself chiefly in learning to write. He was never the least bit of a snob but was, on the other hand, a good deal of a bohemian. All lovers of Bohemia would enjoy his "Providence and the Guitar...
...young gentlemen - boys if you please - to sit perfectly straight and rigid, perfectly composed and dignified when visitors are present in the gallery. If we sat in our places like frozen mummies we should be as Doroty Lundt expressed in the Transcript last April: "Harvard boys? Not a bit of it! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking an evening out, in charge of Miss Cornelia Blimber - thats what they were, and that all they were." But as I have said, I have never seen in Memorial boisterous conduct that was ungentlemanly...