Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selected are energetic, discreet, and popular among their fellows, and they will undoubtedly work hard and zealously to make this occasion - the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard - a memorable one in the annals of the present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense of the word. We should count ourselves very lucky in being able to take part in the quarter-millennial anniversary of our Alma Mater. We trust that the newly elected committee will formulate some...
...Come into the examination fresh and able to think clearly...
...side is equally as bad until five o'clock. Now these reserved seats are meant originally and chiefly for ladies, and ought therefore to have some pretence to comfort beyond that of having numbers painted on them at intervals of about eighteen inches. Instead of this, all ladies who come to the base-ball games are forced to choose between personal discomfort or some other person's discomfort; between watching the game in the full glare of the sun in silent anguish, and the alternative of raising their parasols, to the utter annihilation of the persons behind them...
...should do this we did not undertake to decide or enquire. We merely named an existing student-body, as the initiator of organization, and trusted that there was enough of public spirit in the college and enough of the usual American good sense and capacity for public questions, to come to the front and find some way of making the will of the majority prevail. That an overwhelming majority would vote for the college yard not becoming a nuisance in the midst of the town, if the question were put abstractly, who can doubt. It remains to be seen, however...
There is another matter that needs the attention of the students, and that is the way in which the cheering has been conducted in the last few games. Passing over the great mistake which has been made in the quickness with which the "rah's" are delivered, we come to the weakness and irregularity of the cheers themselves. Reserved seats sold to students should be sold all in one part of the field, that those who wish to cheer may have an opportunity to do so. Some one in authority ought to take charge of this matter...