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...CRIMSON:- Much comment has been caused among the students and elsewhere upon the fact that more freshmen were dropped last year than ever before, and one and all unite in saying that it is all because the men of ninety who have thus unceremoniously left their class, chose to "loaf" and "play" during their freshman year, instead of showing that praise worthy and laudable attention to work, which has ever been the leading character of every Harvard freshman. Now a close investigation of the subject shows that a large proportion of these "dropped eggs," were dropped-not because they failed...
...last days of the college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...
...newspaper delegates were followed by a delegation of Puritans - a very well gotten up and correct costume: - gray knee-breeches, short coat and sugar-loaf hat, and a huge belt with a bright buckle. There were about thirty in all in the body, and they had a curious cheer, which woke the echoes...
...leisurely manner, look round a little while, and then go in again, perfectly satisfied with themselves. They ought to play every afternoon from three to four, against themselves, and then a picked eleven or fifteen ought to play the university from quarter of five to five. Yale does not loaf in any such was as our freshmen are now doing, and the experience of past years ought to have shown that our only hope of beating the Yale freshmen is by working morning, noon and night. As it is, the present freshman eleven bids fair to rival even...
...duty of every under graduate to be present at the games played by his class team. Aside from the mere question of duty, however, we think that men will be well repaid for their trouble. It is not a very bad way to spend a few hours to loaf upon the benches in the sun, and watch a game in which one has a, so to speak, personal interest, or at which one has the privilege of being present "without money and without price...