Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the last few years, urged on by somewhat unjust criticism from other colleges and by the uprearing of a new temper from within, it has become the fashion here at Harvard to work for "college spirit." To further it, so many flaming lamps of advice are thrust into student hands that some are quite unable to decide what torch shall light for them the academic road and others burn their fingers in trying to carry too many. With the current number of the Advocate as a text the reviewer ventures to give some advice on a condition hitherto passed...
...Philadelphia on Friday evening, H. H. Loomis '13 won his three bouts in easy fashion while G. B. Wilbur '12 won the fourth. M. M. Boyd '12 failed to qualify. Captain Dalsheimer and McPherson did well for Pennsylvania, each winning two bouts...
...would seem that the purpose of the class of '88 might be served with more assurance of success were these more catholic in range. And the undergraduate mind discovers no reason why, so far as subject matter goes, the Garrison Prize should not be administered after the fashion of the Bowdoin Prizes, by admitting any theme approved of by the committee...
...advancing the ball down the field by straight football. The only open work was a forward pass from Freedley to Hollister which netted 15 yards. Otherwise the backs made most of their gains on the skin-tackle play, the line opening up the holes for this formation in excellent fashion. The second score was made by Reynolds on plunges through left tackle and left guard. A play which would have resulted in another score occurred when Gardiner intercepted a forward pass on the second team's 40-yard line and had a clear field...
...curtain rose on a setting of essentially nothing but two side pieces and a circular dropped curtain of dark green, bent into a half circle somewhat after the fashion that the apparatus of screen advocated by Mr. Craig might be. At the left stood a study chair and a desk of some period difficult to conjecture; in the chair sat the "Wise Man" philosophizing aloud, and near him, on a pedestal, an hour glass. The "Wise Man" was a teacher and he philosophized in language that betokened him an atheist. A "Fool" enters. He admits he is a fool...