Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomores, demanding entertainment for their superior lordships, is a proceeding which, the freshman may believe, the better sentiment of the college utterly despises, and we shall heartily congratulate those who have received such "invitation" if they refuse to notice them. The blame for the survival of a remnant of former customs must lie with a minority of the sophomores, but the weakness of those who respond deserves some censure. Our words may have no effect in keeping a semblance of order, but we think we have shown the matter in its true light...
...remnant of the "flogging" system of the English college may be trace n the custom that obliged freshmen to run on errands for their higher brethren. A freshman never thought of breaking this rule, for if he did refuse to obey the command of a superior his disobedience would meet with the direst consequences...
...sports of the fall term, and one of the most interesting games that ever excite college audiences will again appear in Cambridge. In this sport the outlook would not, however, be particularly bright. What material there is now in college from which to form an eleven is the remnant of the old '84 team, which was no match at all for the finely trained teams of Princeton and Yale. Still, there are enough good athletes in college to form a strong eleven, and they could learn to play the game. It is to be hoped that Harvard will once more...
...that what it has to furnish is just as good. There is a large number in every college in regard to whom it makes little difference whether the opportunities furnished them are first or second-class. They will get about as much from one as the other. But the 'remnant,' the bright men with possibilities in them, are a college's most precious opportunity. And it is just these who are the greatest sufferers from the system that gives them a provincial tone for life, instead of imparting, as a University should, a sentiment of universality...
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...