Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu of a first-class hotel. Such a thing as a marked violation of good breeding is almost unknown at these tables. For six years from four hundred to six hundred students have eaten together in this the largest college dining hall in the world, and no disturbance whatever has ever occurred. Indeed, such a thing would be impossible among...
...first thing to greet us, as we come back from the Christmas vacation, is the Harvard Index as tastefully gotten up as ever. The Index has become one of the institutions of the college, and is always comprehensive and reliable. After looking over the book and noticing the valuable additions, nobody will be disposed to withhold the indulgence for delay, which the compiler asks in his preface...
...ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance, suppose a man who hardly possesses more than average general intelligence should accidentally have a gift for music, a thing not impossible or infrequent; he devotes himself largely to that subject, and in the end gains highest honors, and with it a degree summa cum laude. Although on his degree the reason for the distinction is mentioned, such is not the case on the commencement programme. Here his name...
There is one thing in which Columbia claims the championship. She has just beaten Yale in a chess tournament, and now she is roaming up and down like a hungry lion, seeking for some fresh victim to devour...
...rows short and does not pull his hands in high enough. His back and shoulder work is fair, while as a general thing his arms are kept straight and rigid...