Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep your temper from bursting out against this railroad monopoly, but it don't aid you in getting a seat. The twelve o'clock car is the real tough one, though; sometimes there is only standing room on top, but generally you can squeeze in. There is one thing attractive about this car, - the conductor often passes you by on account of the crowd, and thereby you get into the Union Railway for eight cents, which is most comforting. In the half-past twelve car you will find all the seats occupied by private tutors and now and then...
...possible the present efficiency of the college press." Whether such an association will prove a success, seems very doubtful; we should hardly expect the Harvard papers to see their way clear to any participation in the enterprise. The illustrations in the Spectator grow better and better, if such a thing be possible. Doubtless the paper will in time make good the loss of Lampy, if it can be made good...
...course the first thing that you must keep constantly before you is popularity. Without it a fellow of your lineage and social aspirations would be lost at Harvard. Coming as you will from Exeter next autumn, you will find it wisest to stick close by the Exeter men until they have successfully elected officers at the Freshman meeting. Then, if you find they are not likely to be influential any longer, leave them and go over to the Boston set. You may find them exclusive, but never mind. The north pole can never be reached without passing icebergs...
...late the Crimson seems to have furnished an object of attack to all the disputants of the University. Now we are perfectly willing to furnish occupation for these gentlemen, but we would like them to understand one thing which at present does not seem to be comprehended by them, - that is, that the Crimson board is not responsible for the sentiments expressed in the correspondence column. As long as a letter is decent, no matter whether the board concurs in the sentiments of the writer or not, it will be published. The editorials only are the expressions of the opinions...
...unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored...