Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every one- except the fortunate possessor of a most phlegmatic temperament- seems to be in a state of unusual bustle and activity, and to be rushing about the venerable streets of the Alma Mater in a style that savors either of fire or examination time. Anxious faces are to be seen peering nervously into every shop window, and consulting in a furtive manner memoranda of purchases to be accomplished post-haste, according to the directions of the inexorable bed-maker or landlady. Most unhappy of all appear the Freshmen who make their purchases under the supervision of an indulgent father...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -To a Western student anticipating his successful entrance into college, Harvard is apt to appear to his imagination in picturesque colors. He will have an impression in his mind of scholastic quiet unbroken, except, perhaps, by an occasional visit to Boston. Cambridge to him is the home of scholars. All this he will be justified in pleasantly anticipating and appreciating in contradistinction to Western bustle and enterprise. But his pleasing dreams will be most ruthlessly swept aside by the reality...
...slow hunt" the entire pack will be kept together from start to finish, except where the word is given by the master for a race in the finish on the home...
...team made arrangements to play a practice game with the Cambridge club, just to get the men together for a little fall exercise. The game was played Saturday on Jarvis, and our team found that they had caught a tartar. For, while the Harvard team has done no playing except in an individual way since last May, the Cambridge men have been playing matches all the summer and fall. The game was called at about 4 P. M. Harvard kept the ball most of the time at the Cambridge goal but failed to score through poor team work. Later...
...change in the method of conducting future tournaments. This fall the tennis association, alleging as an excuse the lack of a sufficient number of courts, allowed the tournament to be played on any courts and at any time. Consequently it was impossible to watch the play. No one, except the actual contestants, knew when or where a game was to be played. In fact the only way in which the gentleman who had charge of the tournament knew the result was by means of occasional slips of paper left at his room. Under these circumstances it is not strange that...