Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...broad ribbon under the chin; trowsers, and silk or thread gloves, of a color in harmony with that of the toga, and, usually, a heavy cane. It is not known to whom belongs the distinction of having first conceived the College Toga. * * * * It may be of interest to remark that the writer was an undergraduate at the time referred to, and that the identical toga, not yet shorn of its pristine attractions, in which he used to disport himself, lies at this moment before...
...last Saturday's gymnasium meeting a lady was heard to remark that "the tug-of-war must tire the men dreadfully." As a general rule it makes a great many men very tired...
...jury of undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat...
...German student was once heard to remark: "What a spiritless land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer...
Although the remark that our University is poor, is not, strictly speaking, a startling one, yet of late the fact has been forced upon the attention of the writer in a new and sometimes vigorous way, namely, by the seating, or rather un-seating arrangements in many of the larger recitation and lecture rooms. Now, as every student is well aware from long experience, recitation rooms with us are little nitches cut out of an ideal paradise. This being the case, especially with those in Massachusetts and Harvard Hall, the question arises, why should the seats be like smaller nitches...