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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FRESHMAN No. 2. - Don't you know? Why ???, of course...
...books on the subject, don't read them; but read the reviews, for a good review contains the cream of the book all ready for churning. A half-day's work of this sort will give you material enough. Don't try to be original; originality, you know, is not popular at Harvard...
...HAVE just entered Harvard with one condition, and that condition is the grievance to which I wish to call your attention; all Freshmen have grievances, I know, but mine is an especially important one. My condition is in Greek Grammar; now, I thought that I wrote rather a good paper in that subject, last June (for Greek is my strong point), and was expecting to see "Good in Greek" on my entrance certificate. I was, therefore, much taken aback when I was informed that my paper had not been found, and that I was, consequently, conditioned; I managed to trace...
...delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have no right whatever to prefix the word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish to judge special cases so harshly. The "Harvard Arion Quartette," of last summer's fame, probably never thought in what a false light they were showing the College, and what injustice they were doing the Glee Club. It was stated in the New York papers...
...responsible position on the crew. His own carelessness and disregard of duty, though not contagious, disgusted and disheartened the men, and fitted them for anything but hard work. Races worth winning cannot be won without a vast amount of conscientious work and self-denial. This is a platitude, we know; but it is a very important one in boat-racing...