Word: livee
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty to disgrace the fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration would return the compliment, and make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant, LL. D. (Harv.), but we, alas! have not been able to state in our Catalogue that the chair of Belles-Lettres is filled by Brigadier-General James Russell...
...persons, Freshmen especially, who live within the limits of Holyoke Club are requested to try for the spring crews. Holyoke Club comprises Holyoke House, Dolton's and Little's Blocks, and from the west side of Holyoke Street to the south side of Mt. Auburn Street...
...persons who entertain the opinion we have mentioned would probably give as reasons for it, that college men live a desultory and aimless life, pick up such crumbs of knowledge as come in their way, but do not prepare themselves for any active pursuit, and when set adrift, find themselves helpless, unwilling to begin at the foot of the ladder, and yet unprepared to begin any higher. Granted that there are a considerable number of students who go through college in this manner, and find themselves in a perplexity as to what to do after graduation, this fact cannot...
...been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this gentleman that you consider hole to be rather strong he politely informs you that had you known anything better (I suppose he means worse), or had you mixed at all with the world, you also would call Cambridge...
...plan of requiring each theme to be entirely rewritten, and can see no reason why themes should not be required of Freshmen and Seniors. They think that in Political Economy the field should be enlarged so as to include "a survey of the political arrangements under which men live, instead of being confined, as at present, to the laws which govern the production and distribution of wealth." In History they say the different courses should be brought into closer connection, so that their bearings from a common centre may be shown. Two new courses in Greek are recommended...