Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...real grievance is, that the Directors, without consulting the wishes of the Association, but feeling strongly in favor of the change which they ultimately made, took upon themselves power to say that the student shall come at quarter past seven if he wish a good breakfast, and that he must come before half past eight if he wish any breakfast at all. This seems to us to be a proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes...
...there were none at all, - many of our visitors being allowed to get their lunch and find the ball-field as best they might. The game itself was one of the poorest which our team has yet played, a fact in a great measure due, as we may safely say, to an ill-judged and improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team. When the honor of the University is interested in a game, as it was in that of last Saturday, it is the duty of the Captain to select the players for their superior...
...Dartmouth's lines read thus, with the correction of an obvious misprint at the end of line sixth, whether due to the Advocate or the original we cannot say. They are taken from the "Faerie Queene...
...examination of the programme confirms us in the conclusion that Harvard was wise in refusing to join the Association; if we may complacently say so, every advantage that the contest can give may be obtained without leaving the soil of Cambridge. In place of the essays and the oratory we have the Bowdoin and Boylston prizes, and in place of the examinations of the I. C. L., the examinations for honors...
...clerkes say ye shall not deal with chaunce...