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...Prevail to wipe out Europe's darkest blot

Author: By E. C. P., | Title: BEACONSFIELD. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...perchance, will be unable to restrain a silent tear when they recall the delights of happy childhood's hours. Ah! would that some kind benefactor of our College might be as generous to us! Perhaps such innocent pleasures would wean us away from the gross immorality and vice which prevail among us! But stay! The Tablet further says; "Its chief value does not consist in its ordinary use as a means of displaying pictures." Perhaps that rather alters the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...good work, and the only thing to complain of is the small number of men who are actively interested in working for positions on it. We would recommend that some of the officers of the H. U. B. C. canvass the college for heavy and well-built men, and prevail upon them to work for the crew of the future. '79 cannot be with us always...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators of the contest will adjourn to the various spreads with light hearts and excellent appetites, the evening will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...think there is. The hour examinations are too valuable to be given up, but why should they not be so arranged as to secure us from having more than two in one week, or if that should be impossible, why should not recitations be suspended while the examinations prevail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUR EXAMINATIONS. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

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