Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lehigh Burr complains over the "cribbing" which goes on there, and attributes it to the extreme youth of the average student...
...contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried...
...only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what do we find? Paving stones sunk below the level of the path, an utter absence of board walks, and everywhere underfoot, pools, rivulets, and streams of water, in which the unhappy student is obliged to wade. We think that this state of things, so often spoken of and so well known, ought to receive at least a trifling consideration from the authorities. If our rustic gardener is ignorant of the state of the walks, our geographical editor will conduct...
...windows photographs of our champion athletic organizations. This in itself, seems decidedly out of place, but when these pictures and the cheap frames around them are stamped with certain brands of cigars, and are thus made into advertisements, it seems as though the practice ought to be stopped. The student who feels a just pride in the success of the athletic associations cannot value the various photographs of such associations as highly as he ought, when he knows that they are scattered abroad in shop windows. To render the possession of these photographs the peculiar right of the students...
...hours with friends at home compared to the welfare and reputation of a great university! Surely it is to be hoped that the farce of conducting prayers and lectures before empty seats will not be forced upon the college by the old-time cutting of the students. We urge every loyal Harvard man to attend his Friday and Saturday recitations with scrupulous regularity. For once let it be known to the world that the students of Harvard are men, and although indifferent to such trifles as home and friends and turkey, are not indifferent to learning and wisdom and college...