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...sure, but a worse way to win it. This is the real mischief of the business,--not in the act itself, but in the exaggeration and ill-directed utilization. Such occurrences as the explosive demonstrations by yachts aligned upon the last mile of boat races, demonstrations strictly forbidden by the course-regulations, and which render any communications in the boats themselves impossible; or the noisy attempts of crowds to disconcert a player who is essaying a place kick, or to rattle a pitcher at a critical moment, or of players themselves, who imitate the tactics of cheap professional teams with...
...undergraduates replace one another so rapidly that it is no fault of the newcomers if they are ignorant how worn are many of the terms that delight them with their novelty and fitness. How much fresher and more individual would critical articles in the Monthly be if authors were forbidden to use such terms as these, selected from a single article in the current number: "Finely critical," "sensuous couplets," "instinctive felicity," "subtilely conscious," "meretricious!" What a relief if we should never again meet the parenthetic "then" near the beginning of a Harvard sentence...
...voted to ask the Corporation to permit the use of the artesan well for drinking water. A few weeks ago the use of this water for drinking purposes was forbidden. A motion to increase the salary of the secretary by $50, making it $150, was narrowly defeated...
...About eight years ago the Corporation ordered that all apparently stolen articles displayed in College rooms should be removed; and from all buildings where servants of the College were employed they were actually removed. It was understood that thereafter the exhibition of such articles was forbidden and it was the intention of the Corporation that the rule should be strictly enforced. During the recent recess an incident occurred which showed, in an entirely fortuitous way, that in one room, at least, the rule had not been enforced. An explanation being sought, it appeared that there had been an unauthorized relaxation...
Yale lost no games to Harvard from 1878 to 1890. In 1879 there was a draw, and in 1885 intercollegiate football was forbidden at Harvard. In 1888 Harvard was compelled to forfeit the game, since the faculty would not allow the eleven to play in New York, while the Yale team was not allowed to play out of that city...