Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is not a car running on the Cambridge line to-day. The Harvard students in Cambridge think that it would be great sport to run a car tonight and fill it with students having university men for conductor and driver. They also propose to follow up the car with a small army of students, and have a "rough and tumble," as they call it, with the strikers. At a conference this forenoon they decided to ask the city officials for a license and then to offer their services to the company. The faculty have been notified and the scheme...
...library. At present if a student is a half an hour late in returning reserved books, he looses his privilege of drawing books for a whole month. Thus a single lapse of memory may prevent him from drawing any reserved books during the entire examination period. This is a great injustice. A week would be an ample period of expiation. Then again the present fine of ten cents a day for overdue books is outrageous. In the multiplicity of things which engage a student's attention he is not at all to blame for forgetting the exact day when...
Oliver Goldsmith's works are great favorites with native readers in India. Thus the loves of Edwin and Angelina have been rendered into Urdu as Ekantbase yogi, or "The Lonely Hermit," while "She Stoops to Conquer" is translated into the same dialect as "The Story of Beauty Unveiled...
...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...
...September, says: "Let the various colleges throughout the country organize their nines and practice this fall. Immediately at the opening of spring, let the colleges throughout the West play for the championship there, and likewise those of the East for the championship here. Then at the time of the great boat-race between Harvard and Yale next summer, let the two champion nines play for a silver-mounted bat which will be given by the Yale Courant to the Champion Nine of American Colleges...