Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students. Incoming classes will do well to remember, that in obtaining for themselves the privileges of a course in Harvard University, they voluntarily become members of a society whose good name must necessarily be affected by their individual acts, and that every principle of good breeding, or rather of common decency demands that they jealously guard the reputation of the institution to which they owe so much...
...disappointment felt at the failure of the University Club project to materialize during the past year is common to graduates and undergraduates alike. In addition to the social advantages of such an institution the opinion is growing that in Harvard some method is necessary by which true undergraduate opinion may be obtained on matters affecting the reputation of the University not only in regard to athletics but to questions of more vital interests. There is no doubt that the policy of the committee is, under the circumstances, the wisest, but there does seem as if there was a nucleus...
...committee of undergraduates has been appointed to investigate the matter and the college authorities are in favor of action on the part of the students. It is not a case of common significance but one which puts the whole University in a very unfavorable light. It therefore seems the distinct duty of every Harvard man, even if personally affected, to lend a helping hand...
...captains of the teams are laboring with the truest self-sacrifice and devotion to the common good. Every man in college benefits by their success, however little he may have contributed towards it. Yet on Saturday night this contemptible combination of stupidity and recklessness probably did more harm than can be counteracted by months of work...
...Monday, the 31st, at the regular Memorial Day celebration, Professor William James and Booker T. Washington, who served in the 54th Massachusetts and was given an honorary A. M. at the last Commencement, are to deliver addresses at the unveiling of the Shaw Monument on Boston Common...