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...sort of saturnalia for the whole neighborhood, and the wild revels of the students were so prolonged that it was necessary to put policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because he tried to evade the law by having plain cake. At last the authorities in despair took to scheming. They voted that commencement time should...
...back at the many happy hours we have spent together as well as those dull ones which his presence has brightened and cheered. This sad loss, so near the end of our college course fills our hearts with a gloom of sadness which our coming festivities here will be powerless to dispel...
...among us, express such opinions as Mr. Peck has presented. Our best answer is, "Come and see!" For our admiration for the systems which now prevail in our university and for the life and ideals which are the outcome of such elevating systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt...
Your committee is powerless except as it is supported by public sentiment, which ought to be heard distinctly on this question. There is no excuse for giving away a single yard ticket to any one whom you would not be willing to introduce to your friends...
...possible of maintaining their class rank, and that college opinion is not yet outspoken enough to stamp such cribbing as nothing more nor less than cheating. It is this opinion that is unworthy of Harvard, and the question naturally arises, how it can be changed. The faculty is utterly powerless. If more strict police measures are adopted the evil will be stimulated. Is there another way than by interference on the part of students themselves? Would not a trial of offenders by their own mates so fortify the sentiment that should prevail, that a student would think no more...