Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contents of the May Monthly are varied in character and in interest. A perusal of "Clippings from a College Scrap Book" reads like a fairy tale. Here are chronicles of the days when Harvard used to win, when her victories were due to "Harvard discipline," and it does one good to read of the golden...
...should Harvard not abolish this remaining barbarism, the "scrap" about the Tree? You may dignify it by the name of scrimmage, but it is really nothing more than a disorderly "scrap." It is a form of fighting more characteristic of a scuffle of "thugs" in a barroom than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some...
...hope that as many men as possible will turn out at the Tree today to scrap for the flowers. It is one of the few traditions that we have here at Harvard, and it seems to us that it would be a great pity if it should fall through from lack of interest. Ninety-six should no be the class to let this old custom...
...hope that as many men as possible will turn out at the Tree on Class Day to scrap for the flowers. It is one of the few traditions that we have here at Harvard, and it seems to me that it would be a great pity if it should fall through from lack of interest. Ninety-six should not be the class to let this old custom...
Before closing I wish to speak a few words on the controversy whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the plays ascribed to the latter. A well-known critic says that it is extremely improbable that Shakespeare wrote the plays, since not a single scrap of his writing has come down to us. This argument also holds good of Bacon for there is no writing of his to show that he was the author of the plays. If we stick to the argument we shall have Shakespeare, while the critic does not even save his Bacon...