Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...marking system is a humbug; the college papers say so. It is a mistake to study. I am an epicurean College happiness is the summum bonum. There is nothing more delightful than smoking a cigarette in a Holworthy window-seat, or drifting lazily upon the beautiful bosom of the Charles while the wavelets wash and wander about your shell...
...system of hat checks has been revived at the Library...
...MORROW morning, if the weather is fine, the Class Races will come off over the Charles River course, and an exciting contest may safely be predicted between at least two of the crews! The necessity of having some system by which the Captain of the 'Varsity can have an opportunity of selecting his crew from the greatest number of possible candidates in the autumn is recognized by every one, and it seems as though the system on trial this year will be satisfactory. The impetus given to rowing last spring proved the success of basing the contest on class feeling...
...asylums, state prisons, etc., who will be glad of so easy and lucrative a position. This sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College, and is a remnant of that system of petty annoyance which young men hope to have done with when they leave boarding-school...
...this is the first attempt to hold class races in the autumn, it is to be hoped that they will prove successful enough to be continued in the future, for almost any system is preferable to the old scratch races...