Word: ever
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college, except the President and Fellows, etc., shall by threats or blows compel a freshman * * * to any duty of obedience." "No undergraduate shall keep a gun or pistol in the college or anywhere in Cambridge." Provisions are also made against students fighting. With the conservatism and foresight which ever characterized the fathers of the college, these regulations close with a clause providing for the punishment of "disorders or misdemeanors" which have perchance escaped them in the labors of compilation...
...extent of her ability and her purse, she does all she can for her boys. We also wish to certify, hereby, that these boys are well bred and polite, and what is the best additional quality, they are afraid of no one. If family jars ever occur, or if Johnny does something the older boys would not have done, we all know the old adage about the best regulated families. Mother Harvard is the best of women, and her family is a model for any community...
...mean for an instant to give color to the charge, which would be absurd if it were not so frequent, that money is a recognized standard of social position at Harvard, that men of limited means are deliberately excluded from any college society, or that a man is ever elected to one simply because he is rich, much as certain public men are elected to the Senate. A man who has nothing but money to recommend him is much more surely put in unenviably conspicuous solitude at Harvard than in most parts of the world...
More men intend to spend their recess in Cambridge than ever before...
...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...