Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of its devotees will ask to burden the very parent and nourisher of it, - Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge. It would seem hardly necessary to say that every undergraduate should consider it his duty to add zest to the coming reunion at least by being present - a reunion which is to represent the mind and power of the hosts of men who have been graduated from this institution during the last fifty...
Judging from the contents of a recent communication, many members of the freshman class seem to think that the upperclassmen are inhospitable inasmuch they do not invite freshmen to their rooms. We would respectfully state that as yet the upper-classmen do not furnish free lunches, even to the members of a class who have "a good eleven, and are going to beat Yale...
...account of certain proceedings in a certain freshman course has just reached our ears; an account which would seem to check our aspiring hopes that we all who are now in college are men. Can we believe that even freshmen would have the childishness, even if we must think common courtesy lacking, to rise in the midst of the recitation and leave the recitation room? When we learn that the recitation room was none other than the instructor's own room, and the cause of the exodus a mere quibble, our respect for such very fresh freshmen reaches the zero...
...would seem to be easy, were anyone to take the initiative, to organize a team from '90 to practice this autumn and to meet other teams with probable success in the spring. At any rate such action would give all those who care for the game a chance to play at it, and would furnish an excellent means of training for the 'varsity eleven. Let us learn the opinion of the Cricket Association...
...interested to learn the history of his Alma Mater, but members of the graduating class above all others should feel called upon to make it a subject of study. All old institutions possess readable histories, and Harvard is no exception. Upon an occasion like the approaching anniversary it would seem strange to a visitor that not one perhaps in a hundred students could tell him the name of the first president of his college, and not one in five hundred could tell him the occasion of the university's foundation. It is true, as the librarian says, that...