Word: leste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News, speaking of the general satisfaction felt in Cambridge over the result of our game with Yale, says: "Restrain yourselves, ye men of Harvard, lest your joy be turned to grief after the second game...
...Tennis Association is a most mysterious body; its birth and growth were always surrounded with a certain air of secrecy, and, finally, after every one has forgotten that it was still in existence, with a crow of delight it proclaims an established constitution, to be immediately hushed up lest outsiders should hear of such shameful doings. Numbers of players, not tournament men, would be glad to join the society if they knew something more certain about it, but while they feel that no redistribution of courts is probable this season, although the association is said to have received full control...
...long-awaited piano-forte recitals by Prof. Paine are at last announced. The first recital will be given in Boylston Hall next Friday; the next is announced for May 12. It is to be feared lest Boylston Hall will prove too small to accommodate the audience that these entertainments will undoubtedly call forth. Could they not be held in Sanders Theatre? And even if the audience should not quite fill that auditorium, the place would be found so much more agreeable and suitable to the character of the recitals given as to warrant the change. Boylston is certainly totally unfit...
...most noticeable, and should be cared for accordingly. How many more flaring neckties we see than well-kept hands and nails? I refer more particularly to scarf-pins than neatly-fitting boots. You can guage a man's household accommodations by his dress and appearance; so beware lest people discover that you have but a small looking-glass, or that you have more trousers than neckties, and keep a large stock of boots rather than a pin-cushion full of scarf-pins! I fully intended to take you to Mrs. De Sorosis' reception this week, but my space will...
...contributions for the endowment of the professional schools than it is to secure support for the college itself. Although this institution is far more of a university now than ever before, on account of the growth and the increasing prosperity of these schools, there is now a danger arising lest she become less of a university on account of this neglect of the pressing interests of the college proper. The patrons of the college have a right to demand that this neglect be not suffered to continue longer...