Word: properity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game, and kept up to from start to finish, especially if the game is up hill, the management will have only themselves to blame. The benches will be filled with students ready and eager to cheer, but there will probably be no effective applause at all, if the proper men are not regularly appointed to lead the different sections...
...march at all, the main extenuation of their taking part seems, to our minds, to be in the proposed scheme for caps and gowns of the class colors. With proper energy on the part of those in charge, a blue book canvass could easily be taken of those willing to parade and those who wish to buy caps and gowns. If thought advisable, the Seniors might wear their Class Day caps and gowns, with perhaps a bit of orange ribbon. Something definite would then be known about the number which would take part...
...Glee Club is to sing in the Yard tonight for the first time this year. Noisy enthusiasm is proper over an athletic victory but it is out of place during a concert of this kind or directly after it is over. Last year a great deal of annoyance was caused to men living on the Yard, who wished to study, by the blowing of horns and the shouting of men in front of the buildings. The result of a similar disturbance this year will probably be the stopping of the concerts by the College authorities. The singing of the Glee...
...these outrages,- for that is the proper word to apply to them,- may be the work of one or two men unworthy of the University to which they belong. This cannot be said of the disposition to disturb lecturers at the regular college exercises. This tendency to disorderly conduct has not for years been so marked as at present. It is a real symptom of degeneracy at Harvard, of a loss of respect for the rights of one's neighbor, of a decline in self-respect. I submit to the readers of the CRIMSON whether these symptoms of a decline...
...believe, therefore, that by proper search and presentation of the plan, some benefactor can be found to whom this most popular of objects will appeal-one who, like Mr. Hemenway, who gave the Gymnasium, or Mr. Higginson, who gave the Soldier's Field, will desire to witness during his lifetime the enjoyment of his generosity by others. As the numbers at Harvard are greater than at any other American university, so is the need greater for an institution which shall unite the various human interests of the students and establish closer relations between the alumni and Alma Mater...