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...question, are strongly opposed to change, believing, and we think rightly, that all defects will gradually be worked out and that any inter-meddling may be productive of harm. That these are unfortunate features in the present system, no one will deny, but it would be well to ponder long before making any arbitrary changes...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Whenever the examination period comes, the undergraduate begins to ponder upon the injustice and hardship of this world and wonders whether life is worth living after all. He constantly notices cases where the greatest injustice occurs and wonders if it is not possible to prevent such things. It certainly does seem hard in the first place that the examinations, which are to give us the main part of our marks for the year, should all be placed at the end of the year when the weather is least suited for studying. In the Law School...
...doubts that our young men in college are not straining every nerve to finish their educations and fit themselves for the active duties of life, let them ponder over the fact that the deep theme to be written upon by the sophomores of Harvard College is, "The Comparative Merits of Base-Ball and Foot-Ball...
...Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...
...ponder if the days to come shall prove...