Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourth, the statistics show that far from degenerating, the Union has had the most successful year in its history. This is evidenced by a larger attendance than ever before, by its financial prosperity, by the fact that the Union has this year distributed shingles, and thought it well to restrict its membership...
...awkward question which must be soon decided. There is an abuse, quite as had as the rest, which the writer of the editorial in question did not point out, and that is the extravagant and ridiculous language in which the questions for debate are couched. The debates themselves show that the participants are very careful to avoid arguing the question directly as put; for instance, does anyone believe that "The preservation of Constitutional Government demands the immediate repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill?" Certainly not, - not even the gentleman who framed it. Will any one argue that Mr. Cleveland...
...editors of the Lampoon, by their rather startling methods of replying to our criticism of April 22, show that they have chosen to find a feeling of ill-will and even bitterness in an editorial which we wrote in perfect good will and friendliness. But our criticism, we still maintain, was well-founded. We have frequently heard the same criticism made in the college at large, and at the time of our writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team, after a hotly played contest, defeated by a score of 1 to 0 the Independents of Boston. The Independents show a great lack of training, and moreover they did not play together well, but still they played with vim, and their individual play was at times brilliant...
...with greater pleasure, because that paper has put itself still further in the wrong by its cheap bombast and ridiculous patronage. In the first place we did not claim to be criticising the editorial columns of the Spirit, as reference to our columns of April 17th will show. In the second place, the article which we did criticise was not under the head of correspondence, nor did it have the name of a correspondent attached to it. There was simply a quotation from the CRIMSON, under a "displayed" head, with the comments underneath to which we took exceptions...