Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Only constant vigilance on the part of the directors, and a willingness to learn from such mistakes on the part of the steward, can prevent these mishaps. Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families, whether they number 8 or 800. The students do not realize what a big thing Memorial is, and how great a credit it is to Harvard college that the students have been able to manage the hall successfully...
...thing must be borne in mind however, the hall is run in the interest of those who cannot pay more than $4.25; and although by means of the order list the board is made elastic so that members can get $8.00 board if they choose, it has been found impossible to make the service elastic. They can't put waiters on the order list. So members should remember before they complain about the waiters, that $4.25 wont pay swell French waiters any more than it will buy porter-house steaks...
...second thing shown by the game on Saturday was that there is plenty of good material, from which to select a team, as the new men showed up very well, but that a good team cannot be had without hard work during the winter and spring. More attention to handling the Crosse readily, picking up the ball and much practice at team work and passing are some of the things which must be done to enable Harvard to regain its old place at the head of the league at lacrosse...
...procession, if they bear their intended transparency. No gentleman has the right to say or do anything to the detriment of the man whose salt he is eating. The Senior Class is equally bound in honor not to attempt to defeat the object of the Republican procession; a thing which they will attempt if they thus proclaim their hostility to Mr. Blaine...
...suggestion which it would be well to heed. All tennis players know how unsatisfactory a court is for practice, which is neither turf nor gravel. If the association could only afford to lay out clay courts, the results would undoubtedly be perfectly satisfactory. As it is, the best thing that can be done is to remove the ragged tufts of grass, and make the courts over into smooth earthen floors...