Word: points
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seniors will soon have to decide upon the manner in which they shall celebrate their Class Day, a few suggestions on this point are not out of place. I wish to urge upon them a return to old customs and a repetition of the Class Day of seventy-six : I say seventy-six advisedly, for the one alteration in the ceremonies that was made by that class seems to me to have been a wise one. We must admit, however much we may dislike the prevalent cant about dignity, that the old rushes between the Sophomores and the Freshmen added...
...public attention, they issued the circular which has given rise to so much misapprehension. The meaning of this was nothing more than that they hoped for encouragement from the friends of Harvard away from Cambridge; and that, while edited by Harvard men and looking at things from a Harvard point of view, the Lampoon did not intend to confine itself, any more than it had before, to matters immediately connected with undergraduate life. That their paper was to be considered as anything more than an amateur periodical, managed by men in college or still upon its borders, and chiefly supported...
Doubtless every reader of this article has seen still other slurs, many of which were as untrue and pointless as are those which have been cited. What has been said on the other side is not much, but it is to the point. Discussing the impertinence of reporters, George William Curtis, writing in the Easy Chair of Harper's Magazine, well says...
When our crew went to Springfield last June, they were annoyed by an army of loafers, who, on account of a real or feigned connection with some newspaper, considered themselves privileged to hammer the shells, occupy the crew's quarters, and cross-examine each man on any point which might suggest itself to the reportorial mind. Now if there are any things which a crew must do, those things are to keep quiet and to keep their own council. What other means could have produced this desired effect we do not know, but it seems to be a settled point...
...appreciate that its affairs make a suitable subject for the columns of an undergraduate organ. We must ask the pardon, therefore, of our editorial friends at Yale and elsewhere for making one more allusion to the Hall. We have not always been so fortunate as to agree in every point with the Board of Directors, but, looking at their labors as a whole, we confess that their year's work is very creditable to them. They took the Hall embarrassed by an incompetent steward, and with a small membership; they leave it flourishing, with a fair membership, and its management...