Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are two remedies for this state of things, if it is found that I have represented the case rightly: either to raise the price of board fifty cents or perhaps a dollar a week, or to allow any table to order extra dishes. If the first method were adopted, the expense to each member would not be much, - $20 or $40 a year, - while the Steward would have, I suppose, from about $200 to $500 a week more to spend. If the number of those who could not afford this advance is large, the other plan would be best...
...them, half a dozen inexperienced young men are not able to manage what is really a large hotel, and that it would be far better for all concerned if the College would take the affair into its own hands. The Corporation and Overseers used last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they may have been better served than we, or that, while they went home to a comfortable dinner...
Another grievance connected with college rooms occurred but a few days ago. The goody in one of the buildings so far deviated from her usual lady-like behavior as to get drunk. While in this state she lost the bunch of keys which serve as an insignia of her office and admit her to our various dens. A new goody was appointed, and the next morning only those rooms were attended to which happened to be opened when she went her rounds. Remonstrated with for neglect, she said that the College expected a new key to be provided...
...which are most conspicious in his own article. He actually out Nations the Nation in pessimism, and then, probably remembering the Golden Rule, quotes the Nation's words, which deny any influence to scholars, but thank them for the inestimable service of keeping alive the conception of a better state of things. We can but take the hint, and while fearing that the article will have little effect in reforming degraded students, are deeply thankful that in one breast, at least, still glows that "lofty morality" which "keeps alive the conception of a better state of things." After a prayer...
...this has been extensively copied, it may be well to state that the proper figures are 252 Freshmen at Harvard, and 167 at Yale. The Freshmen in all departments at Harvard will number nearly five hundred...