Word: references
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...striking feature in the statistics of the forthcoming catalogue is, however, worthy of more than passing notice. We refer to the marked increase in the number of special students now enrolled. Under the old order of things this increase might have occasioned the remark that the number of drones in the Harvard hive has been greatly augmented, for it cannot be denied that there was once a time in the history of the college when the appellation of "special" marked a student as one who was either too indolent or too dull to successfully complete the regular curriculum. Under...
...exercise of the American citizen's chief prerogative is a good thing, - but it is apt to become monotonous, as may be seen by the decidedly slim attendance at many of these constantly recurring elections. One sort of election, however, never fails to bring out a large vote; we refer to the balloting for Memorial Hall officers. It may be that there is, after all, some subtle connection between "bread and the ballot." It may be that the student of to-day deems it of more importance to have a hand in the election of those who are to superintend...
...time and the condition of the language, or at least the condition of those using the language. All the important wills are printed in full in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1885. Those interested enough for further study in the matter will do well to refer to the article there on "John Harvard and his Ancestry," and to the Nation for July 2, 1885. President Eliot's address last Commencement was largely on the same subject. The following extract from that address will serve as a good closing to this article...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON - There is one custom here, a remnant, or, perhaps, substitute of hazing, - I refer to "Bloody Monday Night," - whose features are, to say the least, a disgrace to every one concerned in them. Apart from the fact that most of the punches are obtained by threats, - a thing which would be instantly resented anywhere else, - the circumstances attendant upon them are apt to fill the mind of the average spectator with profound disgust. I am not a member of the H. T. A. L., but I believe I voice the sentiments of a large number...
...with great regret that we are forced to speak of an incident of the Harvard-Yale freshman game-which, to say the least, was highly unfortunate. We refer to the disgaceful scrimmage which occurred near third base. The facts of the case were that the third baseman of the Harvard, '88, team happened to be in the way of a Yale base runner, who, in retaliation in the most inexcusable way, kicked the Harvard man. We can say with truth that an incident of this sort has never happened before in Cambridge on college grounds between any two opposing nines...