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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities, except that they give a consumptive slope to the shoulders. The cramping of knees and elbows, and a high degree of hardness they have in common with the "forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Luxury. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...connection with the regular college work. They count either as a whole or half courses. Already complications have arisen as to the number of them that may be taken at one time. If the present courses prove successful, as we have no doubt they will, and the other departments offer similar ones, a very considerable problem looms up in the near future. Can a student elect more than one such course at one time? It seems to us eminently proper that he should be allowed to do this. In our opinion an earnest man could carry two of these special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...entertaining than it was last year, and we may anticipate close work. While we feel that our athletic teams hardly need such harsh remedies to recuperate their energies, this action of Yale will supply whatever encouragement there is needed. For now a victory will signify much, and will therefore offer every inducement for hard work and conscientious training. And it is needless to say that we expect that such work and training will again place the crimson at the front, both on the river and in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...fact that the publishers received ample notice before the fall term began. The Co-operative Society is in this instance not at all to blame, and the publishers only are responsible for the non-delivery of the promised books. Examinations are near at hand, and we can only offer our sympathy to those students whom the carelessness of publishers has deprived of the means of preparation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/19/1886 | See Source »

...betray it in all that we do. But notwithstanding such exceptions, is it true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Morality. | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

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