Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third and decisive game of the freshman series with Yale has not yet been agreed upon. Let us hope that wherever the game may be played, a large delegation from Harvard may be present. The freshmen have a good chance of winning the game, and no one thing will help so materially to victory as good support from their classmates and the college in general...
...track to prevent outsiders from using the course on Holmes field. It has been the custom during the past few weeks for bicycle riders of the vicinity of Cambridge to use this track with all the assurance which an undisputed possession alone could justify. It is certainly a thing to be proud of that the excellence of our track meets with such a hearty approval from outsiders, but we feel that we can dispense with their presence as well as with their approval. An occasional ride on the track, will not, it is true, do it any lasting injury...
...respect, because they do not, and will not offer explanations to their assailants on account of this very secrecy. The objection to class societies that they tend to produce too great exclusiveness, and to magnify class distinctions, is met by the reply that class feeling is a good thing, and that the experiment of university societies for social purposes failed at Yale. It is sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards of all the papers except the Yale Literary Magazine, the non-society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently...
...elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will get a broken knowledge of many subjects is some what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation of the very learning on which the above studies are built, then putting mathematics aside, a man is well fitted for almost any sphere in life, be it law, medicine, science, or even a practical business career...
...clowns for the benefit of outsiders." With the increase in the average age of the freshman, and the continual raising of the standard of admission, accompanied by a more manly spirit, we may soon hope to look upon cremations and other childish exhibitions of forced celebrations as a thing of the past...