Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequently has not made so much progress as some of the others. He has a long reach, which will serve him well when he learns how to use it. At present he does not arch his inside wrist, shoots upward, and generally uses his hands in a loose manner...
...assemblies are very exclusive and among the elegant parties of the season, being given by the senior class at Harvard College. The first party was a brilliant success and was fully attended by the many friends of the students, who are particularly to be congratulated upon the successful manner in which the parties are conducted, securing the most charming reunions and delightful evenings devoted to dancing exclusively. The next party occurs directly after the holidays. - [Post...
Yale treats the teams of other colleges exactly as she treats her own scrub teams, and after the manner that she is willing that she should be treated in return. Whether the Yale men treat each other and expect to be treated in return as gentlemen, or not, is a question upon which opinions seem to differ. Harvard thinks not, decidedly, but, on the other hand, believes that there are certain relations between gentlemen which should never be forgotten, even on the foot-ball field. Columbia has hitherto taken Harvard's side of the question, and we hope she will...
...seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes a pleasing change. Semetic languages and Sanskrit and Zend loom up in a very formidable manner. The descent to freshman studies next following, however, like that to Avernus, is easy - a statement that is perhaps equivocal. Those ancient deceits - the four tables of estimated annual expenses - still maintain their posts of duty in the catalogue, representing with invariable exactness from year to year, not the state...
...estimated cost of the forthcoming Science for the first year is upwards of $40,000, of which the receipts are expected to furnish $20,000, the net loss of $20,000 being considered merely a contribution to science in America, in the same manner that an endowment might be made to Harvard University for a professorship in some deparment of science...