Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oversight in proof-reading made us say in yesterday's crew article that "the Yale crew this year is precisely the same as last year's crew." It should have read that "the Yale crew is practically the same as last year's crew...
...FRIDAY.Class Day Exercises. Prayer by Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. Oration Edward Terry Sanford, of Knoxville, Tenn. Poem by George Read Nutter, of Boston. Ivy Oration by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, of Worcester. Ode by Joseph Adna Hill, of Temple, N. H. Sanders Theatre...
...grind should be called a pitable specialist doubtless surprises many. And yet a little thought must show the reader how much the grind should be pitied. All study, and that on only two or three subjects and on only their limited class-room phases, no social intercourse, no general reading, no recreation of any sort for mind or body, are things that are not very likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some...
...written agreements, and refused to play the series out, because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing what the writer meant. He meant that the Yale game probably decided the championship, for if beaten there we had certainly no show of winning the 3rd game; but he never, as he himself acknowledges, meant or inferred...
...department of co-operative boarding since the days when Thayer Commons' Hall, which formerly stood near the Law School, and is now used as a stable on Holmes Field, was the headquarters of the Harvard Dining Association. The following poem, descriptive of associates connected with this old hall, was read at the dinner of the Directors of Memorial, and is published at their request, and by the permission of the author, Mr. L. B. Fiske...