Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that such an arrangement would be pleasant here. But as I have had no opportunity to consult the powers that be in regard to this matter, I can only offer a few suggestions, which I should like to hear discussed...
...would probably attract to Cambridge the friends and relatives of students who reside at a distance. People who do not care to undertake a journey for the excited rush of a single overcrowded day would very probably like to be present throughout a gala week. I wish that this matter might be discussed...
...last attempt is no more of a failure than "Fair Harvard," and quite as entertaining. It follows very closely the track of its predecessor in the general plan, and even in such a small matter as the name of the hero. He is described as a "fresh, frank, noble-looking young fellow, full six feet tall, with an honest face, bright eyes, and thick, curling, chestnut hair," and is introduced talking with a "fine-looking young man, with dark side-whiskers," and "a smile which was strangely winning." They are sub-Freshmen who enter, agree to chum without having seen...
...with him after it; and he always insisted on paying the bill for the entire company. The result was that the decent half of the world took it into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter of course; and the poor little man went through college spending half as much again as anybody else, and getting nothing in return for it but the contempt of everybody that saw him. So don't treat, and don't be treated...
...SHOULD like to point out to the Seniors a singular insatiability of former classes in the matter of Class-Day orations. Not content with sitting in the Chapel for two hours, on what is well known to be the hottest day of the year, and listening to an orator who seldom has much to say that is worth hearing, they have been in the habit of adjourning to the open air to solace themselves with another oration...