Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday afternoon we were favored with a visit from the whole Columbia University, and had a very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone...
...their hands. The programmes for the last junior exhibition were stolen, presumably by the sophomores. Now the faculty have divided the bill for the stolen programmes among the sophomores, and assess every member of the class for his share. The sophomores refuse to pay, and there is talk about expelling them...
There is some talk of reviving the single scull races, at the next class races...
Again and again one hears from the outside world much talk about the indifference of Harvard students, and this has given rise to the so-called Harvard indifference-the distinguishing quality of one of the largest colleges in this country. The quality of indifference, however, is open to great discussion, as it is praised by some, tolerated by others, and loudly denounced by still a third party. All this antagonism arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state...
...Brown game on Friday last, a member of the Brown nine made himself particularly conspicuous on account of his very loud talk, endeavoring evidently to rattle the opposing nine. Some excuse was given at the time, that perhaps the gentleman was excited, or perhaps even "rattled," but we see no reason why in a game between the freshman nines of the same two colleges, this same university played should endeavor to coach the freshman nine. There is no rule prohibiting such action, but we think it shows decidedly bad taste...