Word: happening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power of one who clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand by when the successful "rusher" presented his crimson rose to "some other fellow's sister," the improved exits will hereafter enable the few to stand aloof, and leave to the many the enjoyment of an institution which they hold dear. The custom is sentimental; the behavior of the gentlemen...
...Raynolds urges that, as it can rarely happen that any member of the team will have any thorough knowledge of the subject assigned he must go to some outside source and might as well go to the men who have it at first hand, as to books and magazine articles which they have written. But there is a great difference in the two sources. In getting the information from books the debater displays his own ability in choosing his arguments and arranging them in a logical and forcible way. In getting the information from men he displays rather the ability...
...course true that there will rarely be much originality in the matter presented by the debaters, but if that is a fault it is one inseparable from debate. It can rarely happen that any member of the team will have any thorough knowledge of the subject assigned or can startle the world by any really new thought upon it. Knowledge, both of the acts involved and, of the pros and cons of the argument, must be got up between the time of giving out the subject and the time of the bebate, and it seems to to me immaterial whether...
...debt to run over until the following year; but unless the debt is paid by summer it will have to be taken from the class fund which is always too small to meet the many uses to which it is put. Surely Ninety-seven will not allow this to happen...
...convince everyone that this is right, for most of the students we know are already opposed to it. Fire-arms and explosives are at best a poor way of celebrating and a wretched nuisance to Cambridge citizens. Often they are far more than a nuisance. It might frequently happen that at the time of the celebration some persons living near the Yard might be seriously ill, and perhaps dependent upon quiet for their lives. The firing of giant crackers or guns near the house of such persons would be a piece of thoughtlessness that would be almost criminal. During...