Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...document which not only is in legal custody, but in the self-same custody into which it passed so soon as the ink of the signatures to it was dry, and in which, I may add, it will remain so long as it shall endure. Custody is a point the supreme importance of which will be recognized without the need of further remark from me. Thanks to permission courteously given, a facsimile of the full size of the original-some 17 in, by 20 in.- and in the very best style, is now being executed, copies of which will very...
There is good sleighing on Boston harbor, at City Point, and several horse races have taken place...
Agan and again the Meds tried to gain the vantage point, but every time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window...
...exceptions, are devoted to a discussion of the athletic problems now absorbing the attention of the college. The Advocate urges every man to do his best to help on our college athletics; to make some sacrifice, be it money or time, for the honor of Harvard. Another point discussed is the restriction which the faculty has seen fit to put on our athletic contests. There can be no better place for the expression of the opinion of the college than in the editorial columns of a college paper, and the Advocate acquits itself well...
...think this proves that the way things are managed at Memorial is a crying shame. It would seem to point out that there is either extravagance or fraud there; that either the steward should be dismissed or that expenditure in superfluous ways should be stopped. If a student can buy provisions for twenty-five men at a better price than the steward does for over seven hundred, and give better satisfaction over it withal, it shows that there is something vitally wrong at Memorial which should be overhauled at once...