Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Thus the student acquires a very desirable knowledge of the history and advancement of music in all its forms, as well as an insight into the moral effect which it has had over all ages. As a whole the course is a very enjoyable one, and cannot be too highly recommended to those who have a taste for music...
...much cannot be said of the courtesy and politeness paid the Nine by the Princeton men. At no time during the game did they allow an opportunity to slip of applauding any good plays we made, and of silencing any attempt on the part of those not connected with the college from cheering our errors. Their politeness in showing us their beautiful buildings and grounds, and their good-natured manner of taking their defeat, only served to promote the good feeling between Princeton and Harvard, and we take this occasion of offering, through these columns, our most hearty thanks...
...familiar feature at Harvard. Yet in our own college circle the elective system has so long been humorously employed as the open sesame to the explanation and causes of every college characteristic, from the undergraduate fondness for homely curs up to the excellence of theses on Primogeniture, that we cannot repress a sceptical smile or two when an exchange gravely explains away or establishes a point in regard to Harvard by that most convenient argument, her elective system...
...ball-playing for an indefinite length of time, simply because the "roughs" insisted upon presenting themselves as spectators of the games. We offer the Cornell men our most sincere sympathy; and as we notice a complaint in the same article of the inefficiency of the Ithaca police-force, we cannot forbear to suggest that in Cambridge officials might be found against whom the charge of lack of rigor could never be preferred...
...Spirit of the Times, accusing this fellow (pointing to Socrates) of lack of politeness at a dinner given to the prizefighter Pericles; I now find that he has taken his revenge on me by hiring a mercenary slave to intoxicate Listerops, my head bird, so that the latter cannot drill his army this evening in his usual brilliant style." Before Aristophanes could proceed further with his dastardly reflections on the noble Socrates, the Freshmen blew a shower of beans through their bean-shooters, and drove the cowardly man, with his whole retinue of beasts and birds, from the ring...