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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There seems to be much complaint of their fare among the waiters of Memorial. They say it is not so good as it ought to be. For, first, they are compelled to be on hand every morning by seven o'clock for breakfast. Even then it is likely not to be ready; if ready, 'tis so rudely prepared, or, otherwise, so inedible, being mere outside trimmings of meat somewhat stewed or parboiled, as almost to cause a riot among them. All the help eat at this time; but for the waiters alone it is a regular meal; for the other...
...formed by commonality of taste or social distinction. To attempt by the formation of a common meeting place for the whole university to break down such relations simply argues a want of insight into the causes of these relations. There now exist many societies which, we venture to say, cover almost every need of Harvard social life as it is now constituted. In founding a university club an attempt is made to add a new element to the social life, the element more strictly democratic. It is not strange that a very great proportion of the letters which we have...
...advertising board for his own sole notification each week, calling himself to order, proceeding conscientiously with his solitary rehearsal, practicing upon his flute his accustomed part until the hour of duty was complete, and so striving, not in vain, to keep the sacred flame alive. One might say with perfect truth that the Pierian Sodality attended those rehearsal...
...Apropos of your editorial remark upon Prof. Palmer's answer to his critics in regard to what he calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter...
...granting that the A. B. of twenty years ago was indefinite, does anybody claim that the new system makes the case any better? Nobody is likely to do that. Or will some of our colleges say in substance to the father, Twenty-five years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that...