Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is one thing which we have thus far passed over, but which is destined, if it continue, to make great trouble and leave an ugly mark on the American game. This is interference. It is something which has grown rapidly in the last three years, and which, if not legislated against, will threaten the very life of the game. It is not to be rushed hurriedly against and cut out by rules whose after affect no one can measure, but it is the duty of every true foot-ball player to give his best attention at once to such...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We who board at Memorial are forced to stomach a good many unpleasant doses. But it does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this...
...club. Before we withdraw this assertion, we want to see good reasons given why the janitor should receive a salary of this amount during those months of the year in which there is not a boating man in Cambridge and his labor consequently amounts to nil or the next thing...
...upon leisure and wealth the ideas of culture and wealth have come to be so nearly associated that some persons have doubted if they could be separated. But my words will be of little use unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon race, and while I am not disposed to stigmatise...
...prevent a repetition of this in the future as far as lies in our power. It is natural for the management of the freshman crew to look with indulgence on the faults of friends, and to regard as unpardonable errors the faults of all others. This sort of thing must stop. The best man must be seated in the crew, no matter how inferior he may be to some others in the scales of sociability. It is not a matter of sentiment; the management is elected to further the interests of the college and secondarily the class, and it would...