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...expense of the successful or unsuccessful candidates. Our attention has been called to this and we would suggest that hereafter these trials be held only in the presence of members of the club. An audience of outsiders, however interested, can only serve to embarrass the candidates and hinder them from making their best efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/22/1889 | See Source »

Unless more men sign immediately for the parade, instead of being larger and better organized than ever before the parade will be little more than a farce. No one should let political or partisan motives hinder him from joining in the procession. The purely political sentinent of the college will best be shown by the canvass; the parade itself is entirely a matter of personal enjoyment and fun. As the four different classes have voted to take part in the parade, let every one be ruled by the majority and make the Harvard procession the success it ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1888 | See Source »

...college chair of journalism, believing that by this means a stronger inducement will be offered to the undergraduates to adapt themselves more thoroughly to this occupation in life, and that in this way the tone and matter of the various publications will be perceptibly improved. Is there anything to hinder Harvard from trying the experiment by way of having a few lectures on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1888 | See Source »

...that becomes indignation, that any man can have the chic to ask for rooms. We have supposed that all the men in college knew well that Class Day was Senior's Day, and that no underclassmen, by custom, by courtesy, by honor, has any right in any way to hinder seniors from getting all the pleasure from that day that is possible. Because seniors are the hosts on class-day and underclassmen only guests, it is very proper that only seniors should extensively entertain their friends, as long as the rooms for entertainment are so limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1885 | See Source »

...brigadier general in 1863. His health becoming worse he was compelled to resign in June, 1864, and it was then that he resumed his old place in the Scientific School. Here for the past twenty years his labors have been unceasing. His great knowledge did not, as with some, hinder him as a teacher, He was considered a shining light in the latter capacity, and among his pupils were men who have become celebrated His labors did not cease, even after his illness began to incapacitate him for work, for at the last, rather than give up his classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Henry Lawrence Eustis. | 1/13/1885 | See Source »

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