Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only a matter of a few more boarders more or less which shall decide whether the association shall suspend or continue. A committee of fifty has been appointed to regain the patronage and confidence of the students, and we hope that they will meet with success. Once let the Dining Association stop, and then we shall realize how much we owe to it, and not until then will the students see how much it has done toward cheapening the price of board in Cambridge. To be sure, there has been good ground for complaint in the past, but only let...
Creep, and let no more be said...
...then, as now, in such cases, precautionary signals had to be hung out for the ignorant and slanderous, of this sort: "Let not the friends of college be alarmed, nor those who still have faith in the good order of our institution, withdraw their confidence. This and all following allusions to disorderly practises, have reference to a state of things which does not now exist, and which, it is hoped, never did exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim...
...amusement is announced that is probable to attract the fellows, some men put themselves on the alert to reap the greatest possible pecuniary advantage from the general enthusiasm. Every one is willing to help needy fellow-students, but would greatly prefer to do it in some other way. Let us have an end of this practice of "cornering;" we have seen the unpleasant results at the time of the Greek play, at concerts, and in the recent sale of tickets for the sports. We are charitable, but we do not believe that six hundred men should be inconvenienced...
...would some time attend the college church services and observe the rapt attention with which Wendell Phillips and his colleagues are listened to, they would pause for a moment before trying to convince the world that college students are embryo Mephistopheles, and very minions of the lord of Hades let loose upon a lamb-like public, and going about seeking whom they may devour...