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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...world. The sum of the matter is this, that there are very few newly introduced amusements that last in any community, whether it be a college or a city; and the college is justly liable to change its tastes more frequently than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall, and attribute this to a lack of spirit and a want of energy in the students. While...
Again, it being presupposed that we are not as simple in our conversation as a Memorial lunch, if we tell the truth we are supposed to mean much more than we really say, and so really and knowingly allow a falsehood to be inferred. As a matter of fact, the only way to convince certain people of the truth of a statement, as is well known, is to violently affirm the contrary...
GREAT indignation has been roused this week by the breaking up of what is called a "time-honored custom." This is, probably, one of those familiar cases which has two sides, and before coming to a conclusion we propose to look at it in more than one light. The facts are that considerable noise has been made lately when men were "running for the Pudding"; this noise has disturbed some of the occupants of the buildings in the Yard, and has disturbed the President in his office. He therefore summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...mere repetition of those we have witnessed during the past few years. Perhaps they were a little worse than usual. There was a series of fouls in the six-oared race, although there were two stake-boats. In the four-oared race the rowing was only tolerable. The fact is that the whole system of conducting scratch-races is bad, and we can never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular club crews entered, it would seem...
...Yard (as I saw him do the other day because of his personal appearance), he would have denied it indignantly. Now the truth is, that our friend Augustus is a little inclined to "snobbishness," and a little too much afraid of public opinion; in fact, in a small way, he comes pretty near "meanly worshipping a mean thing," - the best definition of a snob ever given. Now I don't want Augustus to make an intimate friend of Smudge, and I am not at all certain that Smudge would want him to either, but he can't afford to make...