Word: never
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never hesitate to berate a freshman class for negligence in what we decide to be its duties toward the college. When it comes to taking sophomores to account we do not become more timid, but the task grows more disagreeable...
...remnant of the "flogging" system of the English college may be trace n the custom that obliged freshmen to run on errands for their higher brethren. A freshman never thought of breaking this rule, for if he did refuse to obey the command of a superior his disobedience would meet with the direst consequences...
Serious insubordination was punished by flogging "in the hall, openly," a dastardly custom that was not abolished until 1755, when corporal punishment was suspended by the corporation and never revived. The minor offences were punished by fines varying in amount with the enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready...
...graduation. We see no reason why the present senior class should institute a departure from an old custom, especially as by so doing they would make an innovation which is "decidedly English," and which is wholly out of place in our American institutions. The gowns in question would never, in all probability, be be brought into requisition after graduation. Here, then, is an extra expense from which no adequate return can be derived. The expenses of graduation are heavy enough now without adding to the list this seemingly unnecessary item. Then, again, we all know the state...
...prayers. Why should not Harvard College fittingly observe this legal holiday? It certainly would be a benefit to all of us, immediately after the midyears, to have a day of rest. Everybody has some odd jobs to be done which have been postponed from day to day, and are never accomplished until vacation comes. One day of rest, too, from the monotonous routine work of this season of the year, would be greeted with that same feeling of sublime relief with which the traveller of the desert is said to be imbued when he perceives the green oasis rising 'midst...