Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot keep my office hours on Friday...
...maintenance of satisfactory order and decorum, however, is regarded as so essential, that if this end cannot be otherwise secured, it will become necessary to require the occupants of the hall to withdraw at the close of the term, and to fill their places with other applicants from these or other departments...
...reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly from unselfish feelings and for the sake of the future of college sports. We cannot expect any further results than this at present. Harvard and Yale have practically united on an issue; they have taken their first steps and will be closely watched to see how well their theories fit in with practice. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the success of this movement here...
...many things that in a civilian would certainly be much blamed and probably be severely punished. Now whenever a student does anything wrong he lays his reputation and his social position at the feet of his friends, trusting that in their hands he is safe. This safety a man cannot find here if he is, for example, untruthful; for, if there is one thing that Harvard University stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly he is willing...
...specimens although in the waters about Madeira they are tolerably numerous. The reason why they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum has the only other specimen of the moonfish in the United States. The collection of fishes there and in the Harvard Museum are the only ones in the country larger than the Stanford...