Word: signs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles. The training is most valuable and on the whole is as good a rest for a man who is hard at work on his courses as about any of the athletic sports...
...CRANSTON.WANTED. - Roommate. Fine room in College yard, rental low. Tenant's last year. Can sign for next year. Excellent opportunity for man who expects to be in the University a number of years. Address, H. DeBohun, Law School...
...simple point of college etiquette. At present, it is not rare for the most distinguished members of the University to go about the grounds without receiving any recognition from the students. This comes from two causes: The students have diffidence in being the first to make sign of recognition, in fear that the older man may feel inconvenienced to return the recognition; the older members of the University, on the other hand, are unable to distinguish among a great number of men such as should be known to them...
...needs only a bit of good sense to set the matter aright. From conversation with a number of the foremost men in the University, we are sure that, without exception, they would be glad to return any sign of recognition which they see given to them by Harvard men, and certainly the initiative ought to be taken by the younger man. It is he that should show that he knows and respects the older man, not the older man who should mark out the younger as one known...
Every man who saw the game with the Boston Athletic Association yesterday afternoon must have felt encouraged at the work done by the 'varsity. There are enough faults, to be sure, to show that the team is yet far from championship form, but there is every sign of improvement and none of the discouraging indications that the men are in too fine condition, which have often been noticed weeks before the Yale game...