Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only a Freshman, and you will please excuse my asking you absurd questions, but there are some things that I want to know. I know a Senior, and he comes from the same place that I do. I saw a good deal of him last summer, and he put me up to some dodges that will make me have a cold thing of the first ten - O, I forgot; I was n't to say anything about it. Among other things, he told me that Seniors had "voluntary recitations." I guess he meant that they did n't have...
...private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have no right whatever to prefix the word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish to judge special cases so harshly. The "Harvard Arion Quartette," of last summer's fame, probably never thought in what a false light they were showing the College, and what injustice they...
...Hamilton Monthly has articles on a dead thing and a dead person: Civil Service Reform and William Cullen Bryant; would it not be well if both were left to sleep in peace...
...there is any one thing that I detest more than another, it is pork...
...insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims of catarrh and general indisposition, who are unable to attend. Why should all of us be awakened at the same moment? John Stuart Mill says that uniformity is a bad thing. This prayer-bell must be given up; it crushes out all individuality, and is a barbarous relic of the past...