Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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That this is so is not the fault of the executive committee, but of the system. Our whole system of boating is unnecessarily complex and expensive. Fellows who want to row but cannot get on the University crew or afford to buy a boat join one of the four clubs which have heretofore hired their boats of Mr. Blakey; but after paying the assessment most of them feel too poor, or perhaps disinelined, to do much for the crew. their club were originally intended to be included in the H. U. B. C., but they have forgotten this and feel...
...have the doors remain open until half past eight, hoping thus to accommodate both the early and the late risers. The plan was adopted, however, subject to the steward's approval, and as the steward objects to having the doors open for more than an hour, it cannot go into operation. It is now proposed to have breakfast from a quarter past seven to a quarter past eight. By this arrangement, it is claimed, everybody will be satisfied. The steward will not be obliged to prolong the time of breakfast; the diligent can get their morning repast reasonably early...
When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...
...cannot conclude without looking at home, and considering the claims which Harvard students possess to be regarded as men. For a number of years past, but more particularly recently, the Faculty have endeavored to treat students as if they were sufficiently mature to judge for themselves in matters which concerned them personally. All unnecessary and childish rules have long been dispensed with, and a liberty of action has been granted them as great if not greater than that accorded in any other institution of learning in this country or in England. For this the Faculty have deserved, and have received...
...strongest point appears when I try to give him a good sound scolding. He listens for a minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering...