Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teams are at all evenly matched, and one plays a gentlemanly and the other an unfair game, the self-respecting team will always be beaten...
...position of the committee and of this university is substantially as follows: Foot ball, per so is the best game we have for physical development, and perhaps the best in its man making influences. Foot ball, as it has come to be played, first by Yale, then in self defence by Princeton and other colleges, and to a slight extent even by Harvard, is needlessly dangerous, is brutal and demoralizing. Harvard students, must not be allowed to play such a game; therefore inter-collegiate foot ball must cease for us, at least for the present...
...equally gratifying. The money contributed for the founding of the institution, which it was estimated would only provide for four years, is now thought to be sufficient to carry on the work two years longer, and there is good ground for belief that the institution will soon become self-supporting. The secretary's report also officially announces that the Harvard examinations for women in Cambridge have been changed from the Woman's Education Society in Boston to the Annex, the examinations in other cities being carried on as heretofore. Greek is the favorite study of the young ladies; and mathematics...
...Self-assertion is the beginning of ethical life." (Philosophy 4.) Let me begin an ethical life Thursday, Nov. 27th, and live it until Dec. 1st. During that time let each undergraduate lead a pure, beautiful, moral life. Let us set aside our "Harvard dignity" for a little while-it amounts to priggishness sometimes-and be human. Let's start a revolution. We have lain in state long enough...
...wish to say a few words to the members of the class of '85. No man likes to have his picture taken. It is looked upon as an extremely disagreeable thing to prepare one's self for this trying ordeal. Nothing compares with it, except perhaps a visit to the dentist. It has become recognized, however, as an established custom for every class to have their pictures taken, and to this end a photographic committee is selected whose duties, even when ably seconded by the class, are no light burden. Now we ask you, members of '85, is it right...