Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes who have been its fortunate reciepients; upon its reverse side, Trinity is lettered in green and white, the college colors, with '57 below, this being the date of the establishment of the custom. The popularity of a class in college became the sine qua non to obtain the 'Lemon Squeezer,' and as a general thing, fitness depended upon a long list of 'adventures.' However that may be, the receiving class was compelled to keep watch and guard over the relic, iminure it within bank vaults, and take the utmost precaution lest it be wrested away from them...
...standard of work has been admirably sustained throughout. As a result of this, the practical aims of the enterprise are more than fulfilled. The pupils who come to us simply from a love of study find what they seek, while such of our graduates as intend to teach readily obtain places in the best schools, and teachers of an older grade, who often join our classes for special studies, are cheered and encouraged by the new opportunities offered them...
CLASS DAY TICKETS. The last regular sale of class day tickets will take place to-day at 8 Holworthy, from 2.30 to 5 o'clock this afternoon. This will be the last chance for seniors to obtain tickets in packages, or at package rates. In case any extra tickets are sold, a notice of the time of sale will appear in the CRIMSON...
...JAMES.PI ETA SOCIETY. Members can obtain invitations to the dress rehearsal by calling at 33 M. this evening...
...pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which to choose. Harvard has 200 courses of study, from which the student must choose a limited number in order to obtain a degree, and many of these are, in the opinion of Dr. McCosh, dilettante. "I should prefer," he says, "a young man who has been trained in an old-fashioned college in rhetoric, philosophy, Latin, Greek and mathematics to one who had frittered away four years in studying a French drama...