Word: life
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...Social life at the University is within reach of all: The clubs for men of larger means, the common-rooms of the College dormitories and the Union for those of smaller means. For the former class, their club-mates. For the former class, their club-mates and their surroundings in the private dormitories are refining influences, and although a poor man may work his way through College, he is thought none the less a man. The craze for being the social equals of wealthy men, in contrast to Europe, does not exist among the poorer men in the American University...
Athletics hold a prominent place, and although their intense worship is an abuse, it is much better than the dissipation of continental university students, and provides a great disciplinary force for American men. Although less scholarly than their European contemporaries, American students are better fitted for life, and in every one of them is a desire to make America great, which makes American universities not only establishments of advanced learning, but centres for the inculcation of the national spirit...
Seniors and Freshmen are reminded of their class pictures. Nothing is more interesting as a memento of undergraduate days than a photograph of the class, which, despite strong tendencies to the contrary, in still in every way the unit of College life. Every man should be present promptly at the hour stated...
...save its antiquity. We refer to the ringing of the College bell every morning at 7 o'clock. In most instances the College authorities have allowed the students to regulate their personal habits in their own way, but in this case there is a notorious exception. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to a continual annoyance? The 7 o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening; 1. March. "Tannhauser," Wagner 2. Overture, "Zampa," Herold 3. Waltz, "Artist's Life," Strauss 4. Selection, "The Red Mill," Herbert 5. Selection, "I Pagliacel," Leoncavallo 6. Largo, Handel 7. Polonaise, Liszt 8. Overture, "1812," Tschaikowsky 9. American Fantasy, Herbert 10. Intermezzo from "Naila," Delibes 11. Waltz, "Espana," Waldteufel 12. March, "Cruiser Harvard," Strube