Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those students who advertise books at second hand. He is fortunate if he finds what he wishes. By the beginning of his Junior year, at least, he experiments among the Boston bookstores. His eyes are then opened to the true inwardness of his large book account. Let me mention one instance as a specimen of his experiences. He has elected History VIII. or IX. and wishes to buy Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States. Mr. Sever charges eight dollars for the two volumes. At Messrs. Lee & Shepard's, who are mentioned only as representative of Boston booksellers...
...Acta Columbiana has several Harvard items, among others a list of "those trying for the Sophomore Crew," and something about substitutes on the 'Varsity, distributed among their own locals without any mention of the fact that they don't belong to Columbia. It must astonish Columbia Sophs. to find ten or twelve names of men they don't know down for their class crew...
...students on Sunday afternoons. We wish it might be opened next Sunday, but there is so little time remaining that it is scarcely worth the trouble. This will certainly prove a great convenience, not only to the hard student, but also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult to see why the Library should be closed at all Sundays, unless for the lack of means to pay for attendants, but this, like several other recent improvements, is a step in advance, and a proof that Harvard College cannot afford...
Since the publication of our best-on-record tables in No. 5 of the present volume of the Crimson, several of the records have been bettered by American amateurs, which are certainly worthy of more than a passing mention, but lack of space will prevent our giving any extended account of the performances. Early in the fall, the tables, corrected up to the date of publication, will be given with each number of the Crimson, but until then the following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that...
...know that to many, to point out facts means either approving or condemning them. We therefore wish it distinctly understood that while we mention these facts because they are matters of importance to our University, we would also have it understood that we know they arise from causes at present unavoidable. Some day we hope it will be possible to pursue a different, and what we cannot help calling, a more liberal-minded plan...