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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than anything else. He adds: 'When I was in Shanghai, I went to evening service with my hostess' daughter, who is a very pretty sweet sixteen, arm-in-arm, and you ought to see the people stare at us. They would stop in the middle of the street and look at us as if we were so many living curiosities. I suppose they never saw such a breach of the social etiquette before. I had the queerest kind of a Christmas present. What do you suppose it was? I doubt if you can guess it, so I'll tell...
...rooms, in the minds of many occupants; and, consequently, complaints are beginning to be made of some minor discomforts and inconveniences arising from steam-heating. Complaint is made of the noise; and one Yale man writes: "They frequently leak all over the carpet, and they don't give the look of comfort to a room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated in this way are very hot and close." Nevertheless, we will...
...have men who seem capable of success in this event if trained and pushed for it. In several other events we shall probably bring out some strong contestants, whose success in any one instance would prove gratifying. '85 is an unknown factor as yet in these calculations, and all look to her with the greatest interest in the coming in-door athletic games this month, and upon the training field when spring opens...
...undoubted fact, but to succeed requires careful management. As some one has said, only a philanthropist ought to manage a cooperative store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important position in having taken the initiative, adapting this attempt in economic finance to the peculiar circumstances and customs of student life...
...about to graduate, the four years spent in Harvard seem very short as we look back upon them, and the query naturally arises, "How much have I accomplished?" The amount of work done may be estimated by one who has pursued a certain course of study with some particular object or profession in view, but to the average student, who has been to college merely for the sake of "getting an education," the question is a hard one to answer. Because we have taken a large number of courses in different subjects, does not follow that our time has been...