Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ever been in the Wild West can not but enjoy every minute of the time spent in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The horse racing of Cowboys, Mexicans, Arabs, Gauchos, Indians, etc., the sharpshooting of Miss Oakley and Johnny Baker, the exhibition of lassoing by the Mexicans, are but few of numerous exciting and absorbing features. The crowning feature, however, is the sharpshooting, at full speed, of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill...
...hope that with the warm weather the glee club will soon begin its evening singing in the yard. Each year the students look forward to this with great pleasure, and each year they are able to enjoy it far less often than they would wish. There is no feature of the life in the College yard more delightful, none which will stay longer in the memory of students, than the singing on the steps of Holworthy. It is a time-honored custom which cannot be too carefully preserved. Unfortunately the period when open-air singing is possible cannot be extended...
There would seem to be no objection to assessing each student resident in Cambridge $1.00 a year towards the support of the infirmary. Any such student might at some time be glad to enjoy the benefits of the infirmary, and it would be the interest of all to see that its usefulness was not interfered with by lack of funds...
...present, in the onward sweep of athletics, the undergraduate has been deceived into thinking, or rather into acting as if he thought, that the athlete alone is deserving of the popularity which puts a man's name in every body's mouth. It is proper that the athlete should enjoy a certain measure of collegiate fame, but it is far from proper that he should hold so nearly a monopoly of it as he does today. Such prominence as is now the reward of success in athletics is harmful both to him who receives it and to those who accord...
...significant than the lavish commendation which they so recklessly bestow on the favored athlete. The latter is an affair of the moment, called forth by an enthusiasm which passes away with its immediate cause; the former will last as long as he who has won it shall live to enjoy...