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...ideas not to be expressed in ordinary language. In other words we have slowly acquired a dialect, comparable to that of Romany, which is peculiar to Harvard and naturally adapted to express minor Harvard ideas. To attempt to eradicate this system of language would be to attempt to curtail our expression of thought, for many of the terms have acquired a significance which it would be vain to seek in any words distinctively more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard...
...have said, the growth of our cities has done much to curtail the opportunities for obtaining open air exercise which our young men formerly enjoyed. But this evil has been met by erecting gymnasiums, such as, in our younger days, never even entered our dreams. Here in Boston we have the gymnasiums of the Young Men's Christian Union, and Young Men's Christian Association, open to all, on the payment of a merely nominal fee. The youth of our higher schools have access to the excellent gymnasium of the Boston Latin School, on Warren avenue, though, it must...
...unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will be necessary to curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock and key. Let us hope therefore, that a knowledge of the hardships and inconvenience in which others are placed, if not a sense of right and wrong, will induce...
...ball at Yale at least would be made self-supporting. This is the true ground of objecting to games with Dartmouth and Amherst. Without them we can have better and more interesting games, and can obtain them at greatly reduced expense. There is a strong tendency at present to curtail college expenditures for athletics, and this seems a good plan to assist it. It is no argument at all to say that the mere fact that a nine fails to win victories is a reason for excluding it from the league. Some nine must always be at the foot...
...said that six instructors are to be dismissed at the end of the current year, in order to curtail the expenses of the college. The Boston Herald, after investigation, denies the report...