Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The gymnasium may be a good place to increase the muscle, but that physical gain will hardly compensate for the loss in towels, soap, and other paraphernalia necessary for gymnasium work, which some poor individual seems to be continually suffering. I am one of the several miserable wretches who, thinking that the crossbars above the lockers in the lower part of the building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Allow me to offer a slight remonstrance to your editorial of the other day objecting to the hour examinations. While they may be disagreeable in some cases I think as a rule they are beneficial, especially in hard or doubtful courses. They count very little on the year's mark and no cramming need be done for them except by a few lazy men, whom it will not injure to "brace' once or twice during the year instead of doing all their study for the semiannuals. And they certainly are of great use in giving...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A note in your Fact and Rumor column of Wednesday touches upon the advisability of the tug-of-war. I agree with those who are discouraging these contests. A case where the dangerous consequences alluded to in your item did follow has come under my personal observation. It is that of a student in the Worcester Tech, some two years ago, who was so injured by the terrible strain of a tug-of-war that for months after he did not leave his bed. His whole life long he will suffer from his injuries. Similar cases...
There will be a meeting of the CRIMSON board...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to ask, now that there have been so many complaints about the library, why the gas over the gymnasium step cannot be lit before dark. It is a great inconvenience to have to feel one's way down the steps, and moreover accidents are likely to happen. There are no gas pipes to be laid as in the case of the library. The lights are already there, and it would cost but little to pay for the extra amount of gas consumed, and would save a great amount of grumbling on the part...