Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mucker tribe which invade the yard at all seasons of the day and night? The position of a student trying to grind in Holworthy, Stoughton or Hollis is a very trying one. Notwithstanding the fact that a cross-eyed copper drove a handful of us from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily exercise of their powers of locomotion and speech. Is there no other grass...
...service is one of those customs peculiar to college men, and one whose origin is a matter of mere conjecture. The Yale News says of the custom: "It is believed to have been introduced at the time the college was founded, and to have been taken from a practice common at that time in New England churches for the congregation at the close of the service to rise and bow as the parson passed down the aisle. This practice of our Puritan ancestors was doubtless due to the reverence paid to superiors, and especially toministers in those days, and indeed...
...ranking system will be the same in freshman and sophomore years, but in the last two years the groups will be four instead of six. Exclusions of electives are to be made on two principles: First, to leave open as far as possible electives of general character and those common to juniors and seniors; second, to make mutually exclusive the more specialized electives and those clearly incongruous. General honors will be granted for general excellence substantially as at present. Special honors will be awarded only to students whose average is above mediocrity. In freshman year the candidate must take four...
...will not allow any one who suits his own lazy, selfish inclinations where he might be of help to the college in one way or another to maintain his position before his fellow students, and then with every man honestly doing his best, physically, mentally and pecuniarily for the common glory you will see Harvard leap to the front where she belongs, and our friends from Yale and Princeton will once again dread to meet the Crimson...
...views of the various halls and buildings, including the dormitories outside of the yard, the recitation halls, Memorial Hall, the two gymnasiums, the Law and Medical school buildings, the observatory, the laboratories, the museums, the two chapels, the Hasty Pudding building, and several private houses. Even the old Thayer Common Hall, which has been destroyed, is represented. A portrait of President Eliot, and a drawing of the John Harvard statue also find places among the pictures. Everything is brought up to date, and even the promised gate is anticipated. At the corners of the outside border of the engraving...