Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Quincy House, on the evening of Wednesday, March 26th. The price will be $ 2.50, which includes the dinner for the crew, who are invited by the class. The book for signatures is at Bartlett's, and the subscription must be paid at the time of signing. Those wishing to sit together will please bracket their names. Members of the class will oblige and aid the committee greatly if they will sign as soon as possible...
...have some advantages, but it is open to the objection that it would take much longer to accomplish the same result, and would be much more apt to wander away from the main argument. But unless the students wish themselves placed in the same position as before, only to sit passively by while the faculty act, they must bestir themselves. We should be happy to take notice of any feasible plan which anyone may wish to propose to the college through our columns and will endeavor to further any plaus which may suggest remedies for the present chaotic state into...
...they are of but little help in making the time pass more agreeably during the summer weeks spent in the country, where he yearly escapes the burdens of business or of a profession. For the chances are ten to one that after leaving college a man will never either sit in a shell or take part in a game of ball. Within easy reach of all our large cities, however, may be had good hunting, and he who had in his college days become a fair wing shot and acquired a taste for shooting will find open to him during...
...heat in an old building like Massachusetts and the temperature without is but a little above zero, the warmth of the room is hardly suitable for an examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another man who has the opportunity of walking about and thus preventing his limbs from becoming stiff with the cold. It is all very well for a proctor to walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn...
...making a bad precedent in importing a mummy. Most colleges get them easier. They are usually harvested after dark and are not always as well preserved as the Cornell scion of the Pharaohs. The students use their scalpels upon them at five dollars a head. Some of the mummies sit in professor's chairs and are nominally alive. These have enough stale jokes in stock to make the average collegian atone for the fun he gets out of it. [Syracuse Standard...