Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uniform in which the Rifle Corps appeared this week, and which was furnished by several gentlemen of Boston who are interested in the corps, is chaste if not magnificent. It consists of a dark blue coat, cut like a West Point dress-coat, with white lacing and facings, trousers to match, and a blue cap with white pompon. The officers are distinguished from the privates by their gold lacing and facings and crimson pompons, as well as by their style...
...very much surprised by the illiberal tone of a letter in your last paper, on the subject of lawn-tennis. Not only did the writer disapprove of the game, but he seemed to advocate violent measures for compelling those who like it to devote themselves to rowing instead! Granting that playing lawn-tennis is not violent exercise, and is not a manly sport, which seems to be your correspondent's opinion, only makes it more improbable that it diverts any men from rowing, as those who play it would be weak and effeminate; but we do not grant that...
...chiefly, for hardly enough graduates remain here fully to support the department. How this will be in the future cannot now be foretold; but certainly the organization of this department is a sign of the approaching time when required work can be done away with, and Harvard become more like a German university...
...would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat us are usually composed of men who devote their entire time to base-ball, and, as an extra stimulus for good play, receive salaries in proportion to the value of their services...
...were sorry to see, on the recently published list of college rooms, the announcement that "all persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building to make fires, etc." Any measure, which like this cuts off all competition, makes the price we have to pay too high, or, which is the same thing, the article which we pay for inferior to what it otherwise would be. At Sever's we are charged an extortionate price for our text-books, because the College destroys all competition...