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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...otherwise, it may be interesting to glance at some of the regulations under which our forefathers passed their college days. The following quaint old rules are copies from the Massachusetts Gazette, of June 18, 1786, and, together with the subjoined comments upon them, from an interesting leaf from the past history of Harvard...
John says that his business has been booming for the past week...
...valuable collection already owned by the school would be safe. 2. Many volumes would be transferred to it from the college library, to the great convenience and profit of the students. 3. The library would increase more rapidly than in the past...
...barbarous custom of stamping in the dining-hall, on the appearance of a visitor in the gallery with his hat on, will, we trust, never be renewed. It has become a thing of the past. Still, although the students have shown a more courteous spirit, nevertheless the discourtesy of wearing a hat in the hall is just as great as it ever was, and of course the discourtesy is greater if the offender be a student than if he be a stranger. It is with great surprise, then, that we learn that some of the students, boarding at the hall...
...sophomore crew will row at half past three every afternoon during examination time...