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...hands of our best portrait painters. But, whereas Napoleon never asked his dragoons to preserve "The Last Supper," members of Memorial have time and again been asked to respect the pictures that surround them. Damage has been done; that is known. The knowledge should be enough to put a quietus on further demonstrations of the fighting instinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIGHTING DINERS. | 1/14/1914 | See Source »

...treated" the upper-classmen, he would not be molested. On Bloody Monday the freshmen and sophomores had assembled for the regular "rush" in the gymnasium, and hostilities were about to begin, when one of the professors appeared and put a stop to the proceedings. Hazing received its final quietus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN THE SEVENTIES. | 4/11/1896 | See Source »

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