Word: fates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard life. Among the subjects are: Class Days, Goodies, Pocos, Digs, College Sports, Window Seats, The Annex, The College Pump, The Yard, The Faculty, Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, The Bell, The Chapel, Jones, Examinations, The Bursar, John, Memorial Hall, Old Graduates, and something of Life, Love, Youth and Fate. The book will contain about two hundred pages, the productions of about seventy contributors from thirteen classes...
...year, we can at least hope for the best in spite of our bad prospects; last year we never expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone by Capt. Willard and the nine, by which Harvard may return to her place at the front...
...extend our heart felt sympathy to those unfortunates whom the hard decrees of a cruel fate and a more cruel faculty, doom to stay in Cambridge during the recess. As for those who reject the blessed privilege of leaving the college for a few days, - who stay in Cambridge to grind, - we can only pity for their foolishness, and pass them by. To those whom no powers without nor inanity within can keep in Cambridge, we wish the best of good times...
...this service, and with a desire that its benefits should be lasting, we must not, through pure indifference, fail in our attendance, and cause the Vesper services to be discontinued. Judging from the large attendance at the service yesterday, however, there is little danger that this will be the fate of the Vesper services, and we hope that the first meeting is a type of all those that are to come...
...praise-worthy zeal in preserving quiet and order; but we also take a curious way to apply it. For instance, all disturbances in a private room are instantly checked, the moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room directly over the proctor. But what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes of the Yard absolutely at any hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members...