Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...almost phenomenal, when such a good roller skating rink as the Harvard is close at hand, that some student has not started a rink polo club...
...student, it is said, obtained 100 per cent. for an average last year...
...forth the fact that editorial life at Cambridge is made bright and happy by exemption from the theme and forensic work which is exacted from his less fortunate undergraduate brethren. But is it not, after all, a pleasing little fiction? What can seem more natural than that the student who, from his position on a paper, is obliged to do tenfold the amount of writing required from his more fortunate fellows, should have his labors lightened somewhat by a regulation of this nature...
...close of the game, and such a letter will throw no new light upon the point. If it were merely a question whether the championship should be withheld from where it rightfully belonged because the game did not consist of "halves of three quarters of an hour each," student opinion would support Yale's claim to the championship. The reason why the students generally, refuse to recognize that Yale won the Thanksgiving game is because they think that the game was not played on its merits. A game that is not played fairly cannot be won or lost fairly...
...given by nonresident lecturers, is a prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this field; but for the average student, and even for the ardent specialist at Harvard, Boston is practically inaccessible, except on rare occasions...