Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amount due from Class...
...whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German perhaps, and takes the highest place on the rank-list in those studies; but to read anything in either language besides what is read in class, is an idea that never enters his mind. For him, the finest library has no more attractions than his own collection of well-thumbed text-books. He works hard and conscientiously, we cannot blame him for the smallness of his brain, but only wonder why he came to Harvard...
SINCE we last spoke of the affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise...
...Captain of the Nine has succeeded in arranging games with Yale and Princeton. The first game with Yale will be played at New Haven, May 26; the second in Cambridge, on the afternoon of Class Day, June 22; and the third, if a third should be necessary, either the day before, or, as is more likely, the day after the regatta. The first Princeton game will be played at Princeton, May 19; the second in Cambridge, June 8; no arrangements in regard to a third game have, as yet, been made. The Foot-ball Team have not been so fortunate...
...many years since the class of "long-speech" novels died out, for its most prominent representatives in this century are the works of G. P. R. James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to the "delicately turned ankle," give one the impression of an elegant china doll; and when from the mouth of this superb being issues a flood of pedantic sentiment, one turns with relief to the "One Summers" of our own time. Here we find something that might possibly happen in our own experience. However unpleasant...