Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which examination-papers have been made easy. Every one will be truly gauged according to his actual merit by this unerring machine, which will play havoc with those cunning seekers after college-rank whose sole claim to distinction is the idea entertained by their instructors that they are trying hard. Amiable rank-smiths, there is to be no more of this sort of scholastic reputation-building...
...success of the theatricals in New York has been the topic of conversation in college for a week, but we cannot pass them by without notice. That these theatricals were the best ever given by Harvard men is everywhere conceded, and indeed it would be hard to give a play under a combination of more favorable circumstances. The class of '77 while in college had a great and well deserved reputation for acting, and '79, in the late performance in Boston, proved to be a worthy successor. A powerful cast was secured by choosing the best actors from these classes...
...Freddy Milksop, Freshman, wants to know if you won't please excuse his absence this morning from Divine worship, as it was raining very, very hard, and he had left his rubbers home." Granted. poor little fellow! I wonder how such a fragile plant got through his Freshman year? Did the cruel Sophomores haze him? Did he have to furnish beer to them? Did he come to an untimely end, or did the college life make...
...game than that with Amherst, and to milder weather, the game of last Saturday was attended by a much larger number of spectators. The Princeton team was composed of unusually heavy men, whose kicking in the practice before the game made it plain that Harvard was to have a hard battle. The game was the most exciting and best-contested one ever played in this vicinity...
...thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose caste entirely among his fellows; but this is a very hard statement to swallow. If true, things have vastly improved in England over what they used...