Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this field; but for the average student, and even for the ardent specialist at Harvard, Boston is practically inaccessible, except on rare occasions...
...committee will make appointments with Seniors for sittings any day (except Saturday) at 23 Thayer, between 1.30 and 2 P. M. At present there are not enough appointments for sittings to make it pay to have an operator here more than Wednesday and Friday of each week, but if enough custom is assured an operator will be here every day. The committee will make arrangements by which students can have their rooms photographed, and arrangements will have to be made only one day in advance for this. The committee again urge as many men as possible to arrange for sittings...
...laundry which is connected with the kitchen. Here we can get some idea of the scale upon which our Dining Association is conducted. In this laundry, which is used almost exclusively for washing the soiled table linen, are employed four or five women, who have nothing to do except to attend to these duties. Here, too, are the latest improvements in machinery, which saves a vast amount of labor. You can get some idea of the rapidity of work, when you consider the fact that when our present steward first entered upon his duties, there were scarcely enough table clothes...
...protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...exclusively to themselves. Some of them were smoking. Dainty cigarette holders, says our informant, abounded. Two of the holders were meerschaum, and of a light brown color that showed they had seen use. The girls, furthermore, wore society pins, and had the peculiar appearance that characterizes college boys, all except, of course, the Br-.Shades of Dr. Dix defend us! Certainly this is going too far. The sanctity of our most exclusively masculine institutions is threatened. Our vested rights are invaded. Cannot somebody say the Athletic Committee-take up this matter in behalf of downtrodden male students...