Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior Class is always the class to be supremely considered, and all should co-operate to make the day as pleasant for their invited guests as possible. Every ticket used by a person who has no real claim, makes the Yard so much more crowded and makes the invitation to real friends of so much less value...
...after so much that is subdued or gloomy (even Mr. Green's story has a dying mother in the background) and one is grateful, too, for the pure fun of Mr. H. H. Brown's "Vi et Armis." The "Afterglow," by Mr. Peter Willard, a subjective description tinged with real reminiscent and visionary tone, is the masterpiece of the number. Though the idea is sufficiently hackneyed (the vision of home that comes to a man dying in a hospital), it is treated with individuality, feeling and truth. This, observe, has brought in death again; and the one conspicuously immature characteristic...
...appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could better expound his subject who exemplified this belief...
...players and runners; but, despite the apprehension that these reports have caused during the past few days, we hope for and expect a two-fold victory. The baseball team has already shown its "fighting" spirit, and we feel that the track team will not be found wanting when the real test comes this afternoon...
...baseball and track mass meeting, which will be held in the Union tonight, we shall have a good opportunity to express our real feelings for the men who have devoted many hours this spring that they might worthily represent Harvard in important athletic contests. The pleasant memories of similar meetings before the Yale football game last fall are too near to make it necessary for us to urge men to attend the meeting tonight. Although we do not believe that much organized and "pumped" cheering is necessary or desirable, especially during the progress of a baseball game or track meet...