Word: list
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly just and fair were it enforced in every case. But it is not. We might as well come out plainly and recognize the facts as they are. Every student has in his list of acquaintances one or more cases where seniors have retained rooms and have afterwards transferred them to other friends who were not so fortunate as to draw rooms. Does any one suppose that all those '82 men who have retained their rooms intend to come back this year? Of course...
...subscription list for the book of poems of Mr. Hudgens, '84, is being circulated...
...formation of a Harvard Canoe Club is excellent, if the formation of such a club would result in advancing the interests of canoeing at Harvard; but if it were to be formed merely to the end of adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world, is to have its final outcome...
...drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras. It is not a question of what a man can do but what is most convenient...
...breadth and liberality of interpretation which this permitted, its catholicity limiting the school to three classes, the Mystics, the Agnostics and the Dyspeptics. I wondered, too, if Mrs. Butterfield had persuaded Mr. Butterfield to send "our dear Benjamin" to Harvard on the ground that an undergraduate, under the list of expenses marked "least," could live on $484, but that a divinity student could live on $238, not knowing that this calculation was made years ago, when the study of physiological physchology was in its infancy and the spirituality of divinity students was at its maximum point. I wondered...