Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Well said, thou thinker bold and free...
...cheering and to the singing of the Class Song no one surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true; but is it so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest...
...their action has been regarded by some from another standpoint. It has been said that when they formed and supported crews they managed the boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with...
...Roberts, '71, Treasurer of the H. U. B. C., was called to express his opinion, and he said that he had been unable to find any graduate in New York or Boston who was in favor of our withdrawing without a settled policy being marked out for the future. Their opinions might be changed by the arguments which had been presented. When Harvard started the association she considered it a temporary thing. He thought the question should be decided finally by the undergraduates, but that they should have the advice of graduates...
...said that many of our wise and enlightened legislators, in Congress assembled, cherish in secret a belief that the government of the United States has only to print on a piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable a measure of value and medium of exchange as the standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character...