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Dates: during 1880-1889
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COLLEGE CHILDISHNESS.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It is surprising to note with how much impropriety, I may say with how much indecency, some Harvard men can act. There is a certain crowd of freshmen at Memorial, consisting of two adjoining tables, who, in spite of their sojourn of four months among us, do not seem to have found out the rules which govern us all here. They all appear to be gentlemen, and would doubtedless resent any imputation to the contrary; but on entering Memorial they cast aside all the conventional rules of society, and proceed to enjoy themselves in their...
...Woman's Journal, commenting on the new college to be founded at Princeton for the education of female students, says: - "To prevent the manifestations of rowdyism which every now and then break out at Princeton and other exclusively masculine colleges, the presence of girl students would do more than the police. It is safe to say that under the separate system the young men and women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply...
...danger to the books from fire, I may say that the present state of electrical science is such as to make it highly improbably that the Harvard College library is the only place on the face of the earth which cannot be lighted safely by electricity...
...figure six feet high and weighing 150 pounds rests with one end on a smooth horizontal plane and the other against a smooth vertical wall with which it makes an angle of 30 degrees. What is its tension? That is to say, how tight is it? What is its centre of gravity...
...Whoever seeks to solve the problem of Prayer-and-Providence' (namely, whether Supplication is only a vehicle for Aspiration), should ponder 'The Prayer of the Presidents;' a model prayer, devoted as the verse of Wesley, dignified as the style of Washington, undogmatic and rational - not to say witty - as the words of Lincoln...