Word: signs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual rumor to the effect that a detachment of Cambridge police, accompanied by a member of the faculty, is shortly to visit all rooms in the yard, in quest of contraband signs, is again afloat. Now as a visit from one of the faculty is always a very agreeable affair, few men would be so devoid of sense as not to appreciate the honor which may be thus thrust upon them. But, as for the Cambridge police, we think we may be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter...
...communication from the Mikado of Japan, in which he berated soundly the methods of teaching his melodious language, now in use at Harvard. He regarded, however, the large number of students who flock nightly to see Gilbert and Sullivan's truthful version of life in Japan, as a sure sign that his native language was finally becoming popular in America. About one o'clock, glasses were charged for the last time (?) and at the final toast of fair Harvard, all arose and the song was given with a will. Though this formally ended the regular exercises of the evening, many...
...wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While...
This petition contemplates expending $500 at least. Let those who would sign ask themselves if such an expenditure is justified when there are such pressing needs for money for the library, the physical laboratory and the general support of the university. Are there not scores of ways in which $500 could be spent to maintain something already in need, and thereby advance a more universal end, than in the maintenance of an instructor in boxing...
...said that a number of those who live without the prayer limits are hesitating to sign the petition. These men claim that it is not a matter with which they are concerned. Their view, however, seems due to a misapprehension in regard to the petition. This document is meant to be expression of undergraduate opinion in regard to the advisability, or unadvisability of compulsory attendance at prayers. It maters not where a man lives, he should have some opinion on this affair of general college interest. So signing the petition is as legitimate for him as for anyone else...