Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of certain proceedings in a certain freshman course has just reached our ears; an account which would seem to check our aspiring hopes that we all who are now in college are men. Can we believe that even freshmen would have the childishness, even if we must think common courtesy lacking, to rise in the midst of the recitation and leave the recitation room? When we learn that the recitation room was none other than the instructor's own room, and the cause of the exodus a mere quibble, our respect for such very fresh freshmen reaches the zero...
...would call the attention of members of the higher history courses to a great abuse which is growing common in the reserved alcove in the library. Much time is necessarily wasted in hunting up the references given in the printed outlines, and one must be an habitue of the alcove for at least two or three weeks before he even knows where to find the books on the shelves. But to increase the loss of time, men take it into their heads to leave the books lying about the tables promiscuously after using them. It is tantalizing in the extreme...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON - The miseries of our existence a la freshman, are occasionally relieved by glimpses of future liberation. '85 had some, '86 has more. The feudal period of college is dead; its course deserves prominent interment among the long buried remains of other fossilized oppressions. The common interpretation of class loyalism has ceased to be slaughter and death to those unfortunates who date their graduation in subsequent years; university lords of one term's standing have ceased to regard classless refugees of no standing whatever, as the legitimate victims of their varied and erratic humours. The wingless elements...
...first meeting of the Harvard Union will be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 this evening. The subject for discussion will be: Resolved, That the best interests of the common wealth demand the election of John F. Andrew as Governor of Massachusetts. The principal disputants are: affirmative, W. L. Currier, '87; T. W. Thayer, '89; negative, C. L. Griffin, '88; French McAfee...
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Subject: Resolved, That the best interests of the Common wealth demand the election of John F. Andrew as Governor of Massachusetts...