Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Foot-Ball Team have elected Mr. L. Cushing, '79, captain; and have decided to allow the Nine to use the grounds back of the Lawrence Scientific School until four P. M. at which time the Nine is to withdraw, provided there are eighteen foot-ball men on the ground...
...that we observe the falling off in the attendance at the evening readings given by our professors in the various departments of literature. Only a short time since, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening readings...
...affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise a matter of considerable doubt...
...Natural History Society leads us to hope not only that the course may be continued next year, but that lectures may be delivered on other subjects as well. The attendance at Professor Hedge's lectures on German literature is so large, even at the inconvenient hour of four in the afternoon, that the lecture-room is insufficient for the audience. If the evening readings could now and then be varied by lectures of a literary character, the authors read would be listened to with doubled interest. Most undergraduates are as profoundly ignorant of all that concerns the French, Italian...
...college life is the bovine persistency with which some of our students stick to errors in pronunciation acquired in early youth: Among the poor and uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing in a respectable college, who, sublimely ignoring dictionaries and the examples of all trustworthy authorities, will persist in calling half haff, and calf caff, shows both gross negligence in an important particular and godlike confidence in their own self-sufficiency...