Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...familiarities are often carried to an almost unbearable extent, and must be very annoying to graduates. Last year several rooms which were reserved for graduates were entered by students, and the "preparations" made way with without ceremony. Actions of this sort do not become us at the present high state of Harvard gentlemanliness, and this year we hope they will be carefully avoided...
...might state, for the benefit of the unsophisticated, that during the exercises about the Tree the Yard will be probably unoccupied except by a few policemen, a small crowd of Cambridge "democrats," and a disconsolate majority of the Freshman class...
...wasted time which could as well have been saved, therefore both papers have determined that next fall subscriptions shall be paid at the time they are made. The new system will not, we believe, cause our subscribers any inconvenience, and it will greatly simplify the somewhat complicated state of our books. The paper has been in existence, now, for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost something like two hundred dollars on subscribers' bills. It is plain that had the plan which we intend now to inaugurate been put into operation when the first number...
...come of age, or who will do so before November, the duty of qualifying themselves to vote at an election in which the best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must be a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old, and must take a prescribed oath to support the Constitution and laws of the United...
From the opinions which we have heard expressed upon this subject, we may state with some degree of certainty that the lack of proctorial supervision would have been looked upon by most students as a compliment paid to their sense of honor, and that the confidence thus placed in them would have been fully justified...