Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball association. If the news proves true it will make a new aspect of affairs, and though the championship can hardly be said to be effected by her withdrawal from the association, it will make the fight between the remaining colleges even more exciting than before. Of late years Columbia's teams have invariably failed to obtain better than last place, and it was always a pleasure to feel that unless under the most adverse circumstances the other three colleges could count on a better place. Now however either Yale, Princeton or Harvard will be obliged to feel...
...easy matter for the secretary to perform all the duties of his office under the most favorable circumstances, but his work becomes doubly hard when his class mates are slow in complying with his requests for data concerning themselves. This however is too often the case, especially of late years when the writing of class lives has apparently fallen into unmerited disrepute. It certainly is the part of all to do their best to aid the secretary, and it is only false pride or the poorest of poor taste for a man to refuse to do what is asked...
Before it is to late we would again emphasize the necessity of as many as possible putting down their names for the reading room at once before the book is closed. It ought not to be a difficult matter to obtain a hundred names, and yet it now seems as if the project would fall through entirely, as only about half the required number have signed. No doubt this is partly owing to the fact that many are unaware of the fact that the committee are prepared to receive subscriptions, while in many cases the pleasant weather has caused...
...been a long established custom at Harvard for undergraduates to surrender their rooms to members of the graduating class for class day. But of late years certain proctors, as if exempt from any such custom, have refused to give up their rooms when requested, and it is on this matter that we wish to say a few words. Of course their is no law, excepting that of courtesy, which can compel a man to give up his room unless he sees fit to do so; but, taking into consideration the trouble such an action may cause, it hardly seems possible...
...richly endowed, and so it may draw from all the best male voices of the kingdom. However, the "foundation" created a school in which the choir boys were to be educated entirely free of expense, and the boys are all the sons of "gentlemen." The school itself has, in late years, been thrown open to "commoners," but the choir has been kept most rigidly within the limits of the original endowment, and only the sons of "gentlemen" can become members of it. This secures the most polite and academic pronunciation, and in no instance is it possible to hear...