Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LETTER has been received from the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association saying that the prizes, of which Harvard is entitled to four, will be ready at the end of the present month...
...With four teams 1 and 2 shall pull, then 3 and 4, and the winners pull the final...
...regret to announce that there will probably be no Symphony Concerts given in Sanders Theatre this year. It is scarcely possible that the necessary four hundred and twenty subscriptions will be obtained in time to make all the arrangements. Perhaps the announcements were not made nor the subscription-lists opened soon enough. Whether this be so or not, there is something else to account for this failure: the concerts are no longer fashionable. We once thought fashion a word that the enlightened people of Cambridge carefully erased from their Webster's and Worcester's, but a residence...
...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...upon his hands. How had his cherished ideal been overthrown by this revelation! His fair picture of college life had faded; and in its place was a gaudy thing, like one of those strange works of Turner, hideous and unreal. When will the Freshman be himself again? Perhaps in four years, - perhaps to-morrow. Until then we shall know him by his feigned face and mock-heroic air: for we, too, have all seen Humbug; and many of us, like the Freshman, have taken his advice. A few there are who realize that they have heard only Humbug's side...