Word: donee
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...poorly ventilated Chapel for two hours on a hot Class-Day. We hope to see some change in this respect next June, and in some other respects, too; for it is evident that the interest in Class-Day is slowly dying out, and that either something must be done to renew it or we shall soon see the annual festival collapse altogether...
...amid the cheers of their fellow-students, and in the presence of many fairer spectators. The scene around the tree has been often described, and needs no further comment. And, after all, it is something, we suppose, which cannot be described and cannot be seen, but which must be done...
...there is a twofold answer. In the first place, inasmuch as Yale's right to pick her crew from the Sheffield School was not perfectly clear, she should have sent, months ago, a notice of her intention to her opponents, with an explanation of her reasons. Had this been done, the reasons would have been considered, and a decision reached in which, the editors of the Magenta hope, the Freshmen would have been influenced solely by what they thought just to all, and not by either a generous but reckless impulse to grant all that a courteous adversary asked...
...heretofore. As long as this opinion is held by a majority of the colleges who send Freshman crews to the Regatta, or at the very least until this question shall be explicitly decided by the Rowing Association, Harvard thinks that the minority ought to yield, as she herself has done in the case of a University race...
...words as we close another College year. No matter how little any of us think of the past eight months, we all feel how little has been accomplished of what, according to our plans and wishes, was to be done. How many pleasant fellows there are that we intended to see a good deal of, that we have met but once or twice; how many books, which we have been told we must read, have laid collecting dust on our tables and fines in the library,-if we have even gone so far as to take them out; how many...