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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...early rules and regulations in vogue during the first few years of Harvard's existence are highly amusing when viewed in the light of two hundred and fifty years. We know little of undergraduate life of the first six or seven years, but in 1643 we are told that the first commencement was held. By this time a system of government, of a very crude sort, had shaped itself. The first code of laws put forth by the college authorities was known as the "Dunster Code," and its first regulation was as follows: "When any scholar is able to understand...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
...This particular editor of the CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary powers. Let us either have light, or raised sidewalks in the yard until the spring floods are over, or else do please, kind masters, give us gondolas...
...held aloof from joining the proposed league between Harvard, Princeton and Yale is based on the fear that if a dispute should arise, Princeton and Harvard would combine against Yale. This is merely a protest to screen themselves for their backwardness in uniting with Harvard and Princeton as they know well enough that everything passed by the league has to be done so unanimously...
...have not yet paid their subscriptions for cups for the nine are requested to do so as soon as possible at Leavitt & Pierce's, as the management cannot order the cups until they know just how much they can rely upon...