Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...visiting Williams nothing, perhaps, is more striking than the quiet seclusion of the town and college. One of our graduates has said that Harvard is in Cambridge, Amherst is in Amherst, but Williams is Williamstown, which remark probably tells more than appears at a single glance. In fall, as the evenings begin to lengthen and the old Berkshire hills begin to take on the brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study...
After the recent defeat of the Bowdoin nine at Williams one of the Bowdoin men was overheard to remark at the depot, while waiting for the train, "If there's a nine anywhere in Massachusetts that we can beat, I'll give some one five dollars to trot them...
...worthy of remark that four out of the five men who won prizes in the Boylston prize speaking, particularly those who received first prizes, have been prominent in athletics throughout their college course...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At this season of the year, when the elective pamphlet is soon to come out and when men are beginning to think of the courses they are to take next winter, it is not unfitting to remark on the unpardonable incompleteness of the history department. There are ample opportunities for studying European history, but, with the exception of two electives in the constitutional and political history, there is absolutely no attention given to America, in either its colonial or national existence. No one can properly understand our institutions or ideas without a knowledge of our early colonial...
...which he finds it hard to reconcile with ordinary standards of civility. To put on a peculiar, if not grotesque, badge or decoration which inevitably challenges inquiry as to its meaning-a natural and proper inquiry on the part of an acquaintance-and then to be dumb when any remark is made respecting it, strikes the stranger not wonted to our ways as a want of courtesy...