Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...election of Class Day officers by the senior class is so near at hand that a protest againt illegal and underhanded methods may seem so late as to be useless, yet we must place ourselves squarely against the unfair methods sometimes employed at these elections. The minute a class begins to have "bosses" and to split itself up into antagonistic factions, each running its own candidates, the fairness and honorableness which ought to exist at college if anywhere ceases to exist and the element of "machine polititics" sweeps everything before it. We cannot afford to have a Tammany ring...
...University like Harvard this is a principle that is very applicable. To make the University strong and influential each individual student must do his duty faithfully. Here we are so closely bound together that a few men going wrong can do untold harm, while on the other hand a good work started by a few may be carried on indefinitely...
...dispute the claim for positions. If there are not many heavy men in the class, weight should be made up in numbers. All that we can do in an editorial is to put this matter before the class. The men who have played should take the question in hand and exert themselves to personal inquiry among possible candidates. This, and only this, will bring out the requisite number...
...continue through the year. Most of them seem trivial, but they nevertheless take away a great deal of the pleasure and profit of the course. Our attention has been called to the fact that there are men in some of the philosophy and economics courses, where the matter in hand is apt to be abstruse, who repeatedly keep the class waiting while they ask questions about little technicalities which are entirely subordinate. Of course questions are all right in their place, and questions of a general character are certainly in place during a recitation or lecture. But when...
...well to pay a visit to Pach's Studio, the Harvard class photographers and see what they have in the way of pictures to decorate their rooms. They have all the athletic groups such as Baseball, Football, Crew, Mott Haven Teams; also Theatrical, Society and Class Groups constantly on hand and will frame the same at reasonable rates...