Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...close race with other out-of-door exercises. It will not be owing to the season or to a want of interest, if the team does not show up as creditably as it did last autumn, but to the personal misfortunes of three of the best "kicks" of the old eleven. Such a condition of affairs can only be attributed to hard luck, and surely does not warrant our refusing to play if challenged, even if every game were sure of resulting in a defeat. We quite agree with the Advocate, that men should play one game alone...
...requested to state that as soon as the repairs on the boat-house are finished, no one will be admitted who is not a member of the University Boat Club. Any one wishing to join the club can do so by calling at 30 Thayer. Old members can obtain keys at the same place...
...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...
...hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship of state in the direction in which their intellect tells them that it should...
...cannot blame the College for this; at least we do not intend to, for we would fain fancy the appropriation as old as Class Day itself, and that while the classes have grown, and the expenses grown as well, the sum originally given has been maintained, and no increase made, merely from oversight, or perhaps it has never been asked for. Possibly the present Senior class will enjoy their Class Day the more from understanding their share in the transformation that ensues a day or two before Class Day, and understand why there are "necessary Class-Day expenses...