Word: long
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uniform of the Lacrosse team will consist of a white and crimson cap, a white boating shirt with long sleeves, and a crimson star on the bosom; white knickerbocker, with a crimson welt, and crimson belt and stockings...
...Harvard graduates were in the habit of reading our College papers, they would be surprised, not to say bored, by the recurrence year after year of the same topics of discussion. The debate on pessimism and the Nation had a long run; then came, at intervals, satires and poems condemning annual examinations; and as lately as last week the Advocate confessed its lack of originality by renewing the time-honored attacks on the marking system. The Crimson has also returned to a well-worn subject in printing, in the issue of April 18, an article on public opinion...
...weeks ago the Boston Sunday Herald had a long article on the facilities for escaping from fire in the College buildings. To the surprise of those who have read previous articles of the Herald on Harvard matters, the facts that were stated were correct and the deductions just. The matter has often been mentioned in the past, and the placing of fire-escapes upon Matthews and Holyoke has been the result of the attention which has been drawn to the matter. We propose to continue letting people know of the danger in other buildings, until they too are made safe...
TRINITY seems to be suffering from the same complaints with which Harvard was afflicted not long ago. The Tablet bewails the decorating mania in the Sophomore class which has prompted them to adorn one of the college buildings. Another editorial mourns over the rapid decrease in the number of those who sing at Chapel...
...will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not seem to realize that this is an evil, not of the new system merely, but of any honor-system whatever. So long as honors are offered men are likely to neglect their real gain in working for them. It must be borne in mind that an honor-system necessarily starts with the supposition that its inevitable bad results, such as studying for marks, will be counterbalanced by its good results. The difference...