Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a meeting in Boylston Hall this evening to decide whether Harvard will withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Base-Ball Association and enter a new association with Yale and Princeton. Every one in college who is at all interested in base-ball should make it a point to attend this meeting if possible. A very important step is proposed, and it should be decided upon only after a full discussion of the subject. This question has been under consideration for some time by those who have the base-ball interests of the college most at heart. After mature...
...books, "a privation for a time may help to make him a little more considerate of others." I only suggest that a week is long enough (especially during the examination period) instead of the present month, which is one-seventh of the college year. There is only one more point that I desire to speak of I learned long ago to refrain from mixing sneering personalities with arguments. A student who protests fairly and moderately against certain usage may be "childish" and 'absorbed in self" and have "poor brains," but you ought to refrain from dragging the poor fellow...
...loose his privilege of taking out reserved books if he fails to return them within a few minutes of nine o'clock. He further says the fines imposed are too heavy, and that the new rule which prevents a man from transferring his privilege is unjust. On the last point the writer may have some ground for complaint; one often wishes to take out books in another man's name for some reason or other. This fact, however, is not sufficient to justify us in expecting the library authorities to revoke a rule which experience has proved to be necessary...
...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...
...many days we have been in receipt of communications relative to the proposed university club. We have abstained from commenting on the matter in the hope that the discussion would explain itself. But now that little has been said to the point, do there not remain many questions to be asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist...