Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee Club has, we think, made a suggestion which deserves the serious attention of those who control the policy of the club. One of the very many pleasant features of the spring term has always been the singing in the yard in the early hours of the evening. The only regret in the past has been that there has not been more of it. This year there has been less than usual. Thoughtlessness or indifference of the few in authority and not the general lack of interest has put the good old custom in the back-ground. The time from...
...Oxford student is allowed to enter or leave the university after nine o'clock. The gates are shut at that time, but the payment of a fine graded according to the gravity of the offence will admit the tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another for bidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gown are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last...
...utmost. It is a common occurrence when you wish to consult some reserved books in the departmental alcoves, to find some grasping individual in the same course comfortably seated with all the desirable volumes piled up before him, to be read at his convenience. Under these circumstances, even, it is very unpleasant to ask the gentleman to relinquish his claim to some of the books. When, however, he complacently encircles the pile with his arms, and uses it as a table for the particular book he is reading at the time, he is likely to remain undisturbed, for few will...
...never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap for a shorter one. The men are apt to hang on the full reach and don't succede in keeping the boat on even keel. However, the crew is an average freshman one, and with the month of work they have yet before the race at New London, they should make a great deal of improvement, and row well against their two opponents. The order of the eight is as follows: stroke, Townsend...
...considerable portion of the students. We welcome it as we would welcome any religious organization. Is opportunities and its line of work is much the same as those of other societies of its kind. Its discouragements and obstacles will differ but little from theirs. If anything, they will be even greater because of the prejudice which so many bear to ward this particular denomination. And yet this very difficulty opens at once a field of work where much good may be done. Here at Harvard, above all other places, there ought to be but one level where...