Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the new year he began, quite excited...
...except for their uniforms. They have played many games, and the gate-money taken has usually met their expenses, without leaving a surplus. This week they play two games, - one in Boston and the other in Taunton; and next week two on Jarvis. Saturday the 24th they go to New Haven and play with Yale on Monday; they go then to play Trinity and Princeton; and, in case the game with Yale is lost, they will play the third of the series in Springfield on July I. For this trip they need money, and have decided, therefore, to call...
...during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations" must obtain fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused...
...accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes. But, to come back to my subject, the delight that I feel in imagining the ostracism of Swiddle is only equalled by that which I feel when I sometimes imagine for a moment that the new regulations about required church and fifty per cent are nothing but little sells which our rulers have amused themselves by perpetrating...
...result of the working of this new system it is easy to foresee. Seniors, as was last week pointed out, will take pains - and often at the sacrifice of their personal preferences - to elect soft courses. Already there are reports of Juniors who are about to change their "well-considered plans," and give up studies for which they have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other...