Word: mans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have no chance for the Harvard Glee Club. I can sing a first-rate 2d tenor, and should be most happy to have my name associated with the foundation...
...sympathize, too, with the man who knows that on Christmas night there will be a scraggly pine-tree in the parlor, and a gathering of the haut ton there in honor of his arrival. He will have to talk poetry with his aunt, and Greek with the clergyman. But "neque tu choreas sperne, puer," and leave the clergyman to learn from mamma how hard you have studied; she will make out a much better case than yourself, we assure...
...happy man is the homeward-bound Freshman. He will carry that green worsted bag, emblazoned with his initials, - which might as well be Hannibal's, for nobody can decipher them, - and a very little bag, containing his toothbrush. He will walk through the train twice. He knows every one will see that he is a collegian; but he forgets that every one will see what is equally obvious, - that he is a Freshman. We pardon him, for we confess to a slight thrill of pride when first a mucker called out after us, "Hi! look at the Harvard man...
...Astronomy. Under ordinary circumstances one comes out under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give a man at least a chance to avoid being knocked down before he enters the recitation-room. Another danger which awaits the unfortunate who must enter University descends from above. We refer to the masses of ice and snow which, in ordinary winters, drop from the roof on to the steps, - masses...
...club. Undoubtedly the men who resign have their private reasons for so doing, and into these reasons it is of course not our province to inquire. It often seems, however, as if they looked on one side of the question only. Before accepting a position of importance a man should weigh well everything that might be disagreeable to him; and after he has once accepted it is only just to the society that, in spite of difficulties, he should keep on. In many cases it is possible to get another man for the place, and the harm done...