Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last of May, and time made that will do honor to the College. Now the question arises, How far will the Association back up this sportsmanlike effort? It held no field-meeting last fall, and can have no excuse for not giving us a track, and putting the thing through with some vim. The Faculty refuse the use of Jarvis; but a fifth-mile track can be made on Holmes, at slight expense, and the seats are already there; besides, expense is of no consequence, as the Association is out of debt and very rich. If this move falls through...
...very good fifth-mile track can be made) on May 15; let the winners of the mile-run, mile-walk, quarter-mile, half-mile, hurdles, and 100-yards be sent to Mott Haven on condition of their beating a certain time, and let the Association pay their expenses, - a thing it is well able to do. We suggest as good trial times: mile-run, 4 min. 55 sec.; mile-walk, 7 min. 48 sec.; half-mile, 2 min. 9 sec.; quarter-mile, 55 sec.; hurdles, 19 sec.; 100-yards, 10 3/4 sec. There is no reason why these times should...
...taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building to make fires, etc." Any measure, which like this cuts off all competition, makes the price we have to pay too high, or, which is the same thing, the article which we pay for inferior to what it otherwise would be. At Sever's we are charged an extortionate price for our text-books, because the College destroys all competition by letting him alone know beforehand the text-books to be used. Now, it is proposed to establish...
...Then stroll with me across the Yard to University. There he stands at the head of the steps. It is not quite time for recitation, but he has come over early for a purpose all his own. He is reading the notices on the bulletin board, - a very strange thing to do, - while he waits for a victim. He looks innocent as he stands there, but it is the innocence of a spider that is waiting...
...Faculty uphold it? Because they fear the censure of Boston newspapers. I am going to write a letter to the Transcript immediately. If there is any one thing that Harvard College stands in awe of, that thing is a letter in the Boston Transcript. Verily, the press is mightier than - I had almost said, the President...