Word: makes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been rowed an hour, or more, late. This has been due mainly to the carelessness of men who did not take the trouble to register in time, and to the delays that always attend the starting of picked-up crews. The committee will do everything in their power to make the races agreeable both to spectators and contestants, but they can do very little unless the men themselves will take the slight trouble of registering, at least the day before. If this is done, we may at last see some races which are not tiresome. There are three new features...
...limitation. The numbers are not so large but that the use of some larger recitation-room, or the formation of another division, would solve the problem. A little less reluctance, too, on the part of some instructors to have a few more examination-books to look over would make matters better...
...regret to announce that there will probably be no Symphony Concerts given in Sanders Theatre this year. It is scarcely possible that the necessary four hundred and twenty subscriptions will be obtained in time to make all the arrangements. Perhaps the announcements were not made nor the subscription-lists opened soon enough. Whether this be so or not, there is something else to account for this failure: the concerts are no longer fashionable. We once thought fashion a word that the enlightened people of Cambridge carefully erased from their Webster's and Worcester's, but a residence...
They desire now to place the Constitution before all members of the Association, with the request that if any one on reflection has any good objections to make, suggestions to offer, or explanations to demand, he will do so in writing, and send them to Mr. W. Twombley, Little's Block, No. 10, before 12 M., Tuesday, October 29, The remarks made will then be considered by the Executive Committee, and if there are any changes, they will be inserted in the next Advocate...
...mistake. You must know that this college is not your native town; it is a world by itself, and does not recognize the world around it. Here you must do as the rest do; here 'come-outers' are not tolerated; here a man must hide his heart, and make friends who will be useful to him. Policy is the keynote of a successful college career. Above all, never be enthusiastic; never work for any interest but a popular one, and be careful that you do not work too hard for that. College interests are like the enchantress in the fairy...