Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Editors of HARVARD DAILY CRIMSON.-I saw a communication in Tuesday's issue signed "F., '86," that stated a position that I should like to see every college student take, but hardly gave sufficient reason for it. We may go on a spree, but do not let us, allow the world to know it. If your space has not been already too much occupied with the procession question would you grant me a little now? If '87 and '88, as they undoubtedly will, decide to carry a transparency bearing the result of the canvass in their class...
...bearing the vote of the class as shown by the Harvard Union canvass,-112 for Blaine, 85 for Cleveland. A motion was carried that, inasmuch as the standing of the class will be shown by this transparency the class parade as a unit. It was announced that all who saw fit might carry personal transparencies, provided that they met the approval of the standing committee, Messrs. Winslow, Williams, and Batten, '85. After moving that the committee on uniforms make its choice as speedily as possible, the meeting adjourned...
Much satisfaction was felt by the college when they saw Gilman resume his place on the eleven...
...towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down and steady their hands in order to light a cigar. Gray-haired, venerable-looking men entered into the sport with all the zeal of their young friends just out of college...
...Bachelor of Arts has quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition, inherited tastes, and transmitted opinions; the educational practices of today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time saw a great light which shone out of darkness and they worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality with Greek, Latin and mathematics is demanded for those later studies which have...