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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several years. But in the days of James Russell Lowell it implied only removal to the country where the undergraduate was given into the improving hands of a minister for a few months. Lowell himself, in 1838, was rusticated, though many of his biographers neglect to mention it. His stay in the country coincided with Class Day and he was forced to allow his class poem to be read by a friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rustication With a Minister for Months Was Punishment for Student Pranks in Early Victorian Era at Harvard | 4/11/1925 | See Source »

...President] wants them all to stay. . . . They want to stay, too. The idea that Cabinet members find the burden heavy and the life distasteful is another notion for which there is no basis in fact. The truth is they love it ? and no wonder. The position is one of power, dignity and distinction. The social as well as political phases are interesting and desirable. Few leave except with reluctance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...respect to the increased minimum requirement which applied to his class. Dean Bacon points out that there was no drastic drop in the scholastic standard as might have been expected with the higher specifications to stay off Probation. The number of men who were placed on the Dean's List was practically the same as that of the preceding class and only about four per cent more than in the class of 1926 were dropped out of college before the end of the year. This increased mortality list is the only respect in which last year's Freshmen failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACON PROVES SUCCESS OF FIRST SEVENTH RULE | 4/3/1925 | See Source »

...spite of the rumor that Captain Hammond's shift to first base in the last practice encounter with the seconds would be a permanent change, he was back at his old position at second yesterday and from all appearances will probably stay there through the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNS IN TWO INNINGS GIVE TEAM B VICTORY | 4/3/1925 | See Source »

...argument. they're here, in Harvard, and nobody's going to put them out, not even supposing that it were desired to put them out. They are part of our cosmopolitan structure, our democratic structure. If you please. They have some with evolution and other things and they'll stay, with or without the other things as we choose or do not choose intellectually to assimilate them. What's more, they'll outlive the club system at Harvard, which evolution will take care of in her own good way and time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Understanding Alumnus? | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

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