Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...furnish the students with a patent Coggswell fountain, they assuredly ought to see that the pumps which grace our yard should be made to forsake their idleness, and become as useful as they have hitherto been ornamental. The student is at present scrupulously restrained from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf of this society as well as in behalf of the thirsty freshman that we now lift up our voices for reform. The water which is furnished...
...distinctive office of the jury in conjunction with the president is to administer justice, and within that line of duty its jurisdiction shall cover all matters relating to the peace, order, security, and good name of the undergraduate college community, except matters (1), of payments due to or from the college; (2), of rank, appointment, or award; (3), of conduct during recitations, declamations, or lectures; and (4), of attendance at required exercises. But in all these excepted matters the question of deception, or deliberate falsehood, if raised, shall be a distinct issue within the jurisdiction of the jury...
...thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom personal independence of thought is of primary importance. In no field does college education tell more than in the field of business...
...that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection which they reached in former years. This lack of time upon the water presses hardest upon the freshman crew, who are all new men, and need a longer time to get into condition for shell rowing. All the crews, except the freshman, are now using sliding seats in barges, and will enter their shells in a few days...
...changed from the "Continental" style worn by the first organization to one rather more modern. It was composed of a blue coat, white vest, white pantaloons, white gaiters, a common black hat, and white belt with cartridge box and bayonet attached. The officers were reinforced in the same manner, except that a sash took the place of the belt, and a chapeau the place of the hat. In the fall of 1812, a banner with the college arms on one side, and those of the State on the other, was presented to the company by the ladies of Cambridge...