Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems, however, as if some lengthening of the exercises would be beneficial. Just how much they should be lengthened it is hard to say. One day has been found, by a large number of those who have graduated in recent years and those who have been their guests on Class Day, to be too short for a full enjoyment of the various events of the occasion. Three days would prove probably as much too long. A moderate lengthening of the exercises, making them cover the whole or the larger part of two days, commends itself as the best plan...
...winning team is to be made up. There seems to be no reason why Harvard with her large field for selection, larger than any other college has, should not get together a winning team more often than has been the case of late, and it is hard for many of the graduates who were winners on the old Mott Haven Team for years to understand why their clean line of victories is not at least approximated in recent years...
...placed in Westminster Abbey. Scott has probably given more wholesome pleasure to people who love reading than has any other writer of modern times. That he has not yet been given his place in the Abbey, which already contains memorials to Longfellow and to Lowell, is an accident hard to explain. The circumtances of the memorial now proposed are such that very small subscriptions are more to be desired than large ones. For the number of those who have cared for Scott is great; and of these very many will probably like to give a dollar or less toward this...
...debaters themselves realize, perhaps as fully as any one, the responsibility which this growing importance of the debates brings to their positions and have worked hard and unceasingly in preparation for Friday's contest. They should not only be assured this afternoon that they have our best wishes for success, but should receive also our thanks for their untiring efforts to bring Harvard renewed success in debating...
...whole university is now interested in the coming debate with Harvard. The men who have been chosen to represent Princeton in this contest are hard at work and are putting forward every effort in the hope that they will be able to defeat Harvard, whom they realize as no mean adversary. The inter-hall committee on debate has decided to hold a supper at the Princeton Inn immediately after the debate, at which the debaters from both Harvard and Princeton will be present...