Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...like most boys who enter a new world, you have been a little surprised at the moral tone of the society in which you find yourself; and presuming this to be the case, I shall inflict upon you to-day some remarks and some advice of a little more serious character than usual...
...system of class races was abandoned, because there was not class feeling enough to keep it up. Is it possible that the indifference about backing up one's own class crew can exceed the present unconcern about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will...
...volume of poetry, selected from their columns of the last ten years, and we have to congratulate our contemporary on having produced a most admirable book. The selections amount to a little over a hundred pieces, consisting of songs, descriptive pieces, translations, and sonnets, some humorous and some serious, but all relating more or less directly to undergraduate life. It is a book of which every Harvard man may well be proud. That such good poetry has been written by our undergraduates must be a source of pleasure to every one who has the interests of the College at heart...
...Regent, "perfectly Corinthian." I need not say that I refer to that well-known organization, the R. E. T., - Rapid Eaters of Tarts. We have occasional meetings, at which are performed certain mysterious rites, which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge; and after the serious business of the evening is over we sit down to a supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that...
From subscriptions $1,085.50 are still due. If this is not paid within the next week, there will be serious difficulty in paying the expenses of the crew. About one hundred dollars is due on rests, which must be paid, or the boats will be moved out of the boat-house...