Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FRESHMAN recently attended Pinafore, and left in hot haste at the beginning of the second act, for fear that the doors of the domitories might be locked before he got home! (Fact...
...first section will hand in their forensic November 5; the second, November 12; the third, November 19; the fourth, November...
...number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully. One breakfast, for instance, might be from seven o'clock until a quarter of eight, and the second breakfast from eight until nine or after. Each person would have to come regularly, of course, at either one hour or the other, but that is better than being obliged to come at one hour regularly, without any choice of another. This plan has the hearty approval of President Eliot...
...second reason is one which would be expected to be convincing enough to any gentleman in the Faculty, and, indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every...
...second place the victory has a peculiar interest for Harvard because it is followed by the retirement of men who have long been associated in the Crew. That era in our boating annals which was marked by the class of Seventy-nine is ended. The man whose energy did much to bring the crimson three times to the front has severed his connection with the University. Our prospects are good while Captain Trimble remains in college; but probably it will be long before Harvard will again have three such crews in succession as those of the past three years. Harvard...