Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University Lacrosse Team will play the Princeton Team tomorrow on the grounds of the latter. If our team wins they will probably be able to retain the championship this year...
...Harlem July 1, will have a deal of work cut out to beat them." Columbia evidently hopes for great results and a close struggle for her freshmen in this coming contest with Harvard. It now behooves the Harvard freshmen to put forth every effort in order to retain the victory of past years. Such effort is plainly necessary and success cannot be reached without...
...becoming quite evident that if the Harvard faculty is to retain longer any title to the description of it given by a well-known man of letters, as "the best body of teachers in the United States," some decisive measures must be taken to insure the continued excellency of its teaching. With so many of its most efficient members absent from duty next year, with the present vacancies that exist in several most important positions still unfilled, and the probability of one or more vacancies to come, and finally with a teaching force diminished and otherwise restricted on account...
...that, in reality, it is open to many objections. It is about time that some better system were adopted which would give every man a fair chance, and which would not be liable to so many abuses. In the first place, the rule is that seniors are allowed to retain their rooms for their own occupation. But they are not allowed to transfer their rooms in case they decide not to occupy them in person. So reads the catalogue. Now this regulation would be perfectly just and fair were it enforced in every case. But it is not. We might...
Although we live in such an age of modernness and conventionality, Harvard still is able to retain many of the peculiar characteristics of college life in days of old. She still has her college pumps - Massachusetts with her ancient gable windows yet remains as a memento of a former age - and there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been...