Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...distinct sets of class traditions should be represented by certain officers, nominated by the societies with which these traditions are connected; but if for any reason these nominations should be unsatisfactory to the majority of outsiders, they should be able to refuse to elect the nominees and to demand new ones. By a plan like this a balance of power would be established, which would prevent from either side the aggression which is at present resented by both...
...have purposely reserved for our last word of praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy...
...fate of their enterprise should be doubtful, unless, perchance, the standard they have set themselves will raise expectations which it will be next to impossible to meet. It is to be regretted that they have taken it so much for granted that the papers already established will treat the new-corner harshly. We, certainly, are not so bowed down by years that we can consistently look upon every innovation in the literature of the College as a permanent evil. The field the Lampoon has chosen by no means encroaches upon our ground, - even if it did, we should be rather...
...Record has assumed a highly moral tone in some remarks upon ticket speculations. There has been at New Haven an entertainment of some sort, called a Junior Promenade. To this entertainment etiquette forbids Freshmen to go; but, at the same time, respect for upper-class men, and possibly a little intimidation, induce them to buy tickets in large quantities. These tickets are to them like the traditional elephant, and they are only too glad to dispose of them at half price to economical Seniors. Of this proceeding the Record disapproves. It does not object to the selling of tickets...
...When Harvard was true to her seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, her halls were filled with the brain and brawn of New England. Now that she is, in the words of Henry Martyn, 'crucifying Christ between two thieves, the classics and mathematics,' how has she fallen from her former position...