Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interests of the school. Therefore we are emphatically opposed to any scheme which shall pledge any portion of the school to any particular college, or which shall in any way tend to increase the size of the delegation to any college. Feeling as we do in the matter, we cannot remain silent. We would urge the men who have the movement in charge to carefully consider its full import before taking any definite action...
...enthusiasm of the hounds has been the bad scent laid, causing a great deal of annoyance and trouble to the hounds, suffering as they did, a sudden chill when the excitement of the chase was relaxed for any considerable length of time. In December weather the hares cannot be over-particular in leaving a very plain trail and all the petty tricks for throwing the hounds off the scent should be discarded as much as possible. If the runs in the future be conducted in this way, there is no reason why the last one should not evoke as much...
...warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this, and tells a world of woe in a very few words. "Around Judith," an account in the happiest vein of the recent Harvard trip down to New York on board the Fall River boat, cannot fail to amuse every one who reads. There is not a dull line in it and there are not a few passages that fairly dance with vividness. When one learns, as I happened to to-day, that the writer was not on the boat at all, one must the more admire the imagination...
...SEELYE, Secretary.'88 CLASS DINNER.- Will all those who have had toasts assigned to them and who cannot be at the dinner, inform the toast-master some time to-day. It is to be hoped, for the success of the dinner that no refusals will be received...
...between 1675 and 1700 the students were very "immoral and disorderly," and vigorous measures had to be resorted to by the faculty. The practice of "unsuitable and unseasonable dancing" crept into the college to the great sorrow of the "honorable governors." In spite of all that is said, we cannot think the students of those days so bad as they are reported, for one must consider the sentiments of the time in which these reports were written. The Puritan fathers who held the reins of the college could not bear any departure from their ideas of gravity and decorum...