Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well-dressed stranger has been trying to excite the sympathies of Harvard men during the past few days by uttering a story of wretchedness. He invariably wants "money to go to Canton." He is undoubtedly a crook and should be avoided...
...lecture. Everyone of us has heard so much of late as to whether our vote should be cast strictly according to party principles or according to our conscience, that Mr. Cable's thoughts on the subject cannot but prove interesting, Mr. Cable is by no means a stranger to Harvard students, and he will doubtless receive the warm welcome which...
...theme of complaint on the part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have...
...their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds a skeleton stranger who says he is the man buried so long ago. He claims to have been buried alive, describes his feelings in the grave and the sensation of being devoured by the worms, and finally accuses the Abbot of being the cause of his woes. As be ceases to speak he throws...
...Harvard men of today and not of two hundred years ago. The freshmen had a hard time in those days. Now, in their own opinion at least, they are of great importance; no one molests them, and they are permitted to lead their verdant life in peace. But stranger indeed were the laws against freshmen in 1675: "No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard unless it rains, hails or snows, provided he be on foot and have not both hands full" ; "No freshman shall speak to any member of the upper classes with...