Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...
...proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen...
...pure selfishness, they deserve only contempt. Hardly less culpable are those men who, after subscribing, elude the collectors in every possible way, and subject them to continual trouble and annoyance. We hope this year to see a favorable change. We remind the University that among the many interests which make demands upon it, the older sports have the first claim upon its favors. We remind it that division of subscriptions should be made with reference to the fact that the Nine and Fifteen, when well managed, are self-supporting; whereas the Crew relies entirely upon outside support. We hope...
...this is an inconsistency on the part of the Bursar. All persons who occupy rooms in the college buildings should be on precisely the same footing in respect to any rule as to whom they are to employ or refrain from employing. We cannot see what difference it need make to the Bursar whether the person is an instructor or not, so long as he occupies a room in one of the college buildings. It is a trifle suggestive that he does not interfere with these gentlemen. The spectacle of the President and Fellows threatening to arrest as trespassers...
...vain once, knocked a daisy-cutter to C. F., and reached first in safety; Bones rung in a two-baser; Cunners stole his base on three strikes; and Oranges, with a three-baser, brought all his "friends" home. Here the Harvards' success ended; the Borsair failed to make anything, (mirabile dictu!), and the score stood 3-0 in favor of the Harvards...