Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connected with the college, joining in the endless promenade around the yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very plainly about this; it is an unpleasant subject to handle, but it must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence is not desired at the greatest social event of the college year...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I would like through your columns to call the attention of the superintendent of buildings to a small matter, but a very harassing one to men in the vicinity who are worn out by their grinding for the examinations. I refer to the workmen picking away at the brick work of Holden Chapel. The west fronts of Stoughton and Hollis are exposed to this continuous sound, beside which lawn mowers and mucker choruses are music. Cannot this work be postponed a few weeks, until men have left college? The building would be none the worse...
...would like to comment on the notice which appeared in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, stating that the sophomore dinner must be given up on account of the small number of men who have signed for it. By this the class of '88 are letting go unnoticed one of the oldest Harvard customs. It is quite easy to make the excuse just at this time of annual examinations. But the dinner should have been held early in the spring. It was simply negligence and lack of interest which has delayed the dinner. Let the dinner take place at once...
Such action by an American college is, at least, phenominal! How interesting it would be to go into a recitation room in that far-famed institution and find college students competing with ten year-old boys in our Latin School on mensa, amo, or the like. - Beacon...
...should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of each of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...