Word: falling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject may not be out of place. Harvard has always had a great taste for novelty, and a strong tendency to drop anything of whatever use or value as soon as the charm of novelty has departed from it. Such has been the cause of the rise and sudden fall of the Rifle Corps, and there seems to be little advantage in attempting to revive it. It would be much better if those who are interested in the Corps would turn to other forms of exercise which are of much more importance to the College, and which are at present...
...desire to see one's face on paper is almost as pardonable a bit of vanity as the desire to see one's writings in print, and it is much more easily gratified. To be sure, it is not every one that, Narcissus-like, can fall so deeply in love with his own likeness as to be wasted away by the passion; but we all find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair...
...most feeble one, and needs to be vigorously followed up. It is useless to propose plans to change or replace the club system. We intend showing, in a later issue, that two cups are already in the possession of the College, forming ample prizes for the spring and fall races; and propositions to buy new boats might better be postponed. The fault lies not with the system, but with its managers, upon whom we earnestly call to "brace...
...countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate. And they mistake the weakness of starvation for the inertia of surfeit...
...system it succeeded, but it needs at present some one to put life into it. We are sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate the plan of making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared. This was done last fall from necessity, but we said then, and we say now, that it is a backward step, - not to be considered a moment by those who have any desire to see our boating interests improved. Men who have such a desire should devote themselves to devising means to raise the first...