Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor's ten year old son occurred on the campus last Thursday noon. After a severe tussle the freshman gained the advantage. If the boy had been one year older he would have wiped up the slush with the '89 man. A snow ball is a very small thing to cause such a waste of physical energy. Cornell...
...Harvard are agitating for the abolition of prayers, the faculty of Yale are bragging because the young men at that institution are asking for more and earlier petitions to the throne of grace. Yale will get even with Harvard for beating it in that boat race if such a thing is possible. - Chicago Herald...
...care in the election of members. Both of the "Halls" are founded on principles of the most profound secrecy, and their large society buildings are only possible of entrance through a massive door secured by a combination lock. At the opening of every year it is a common thing to see a group of freshmen before the doors practicing the combination...
Here is Harvard University, with an alumni roll in which the names reach well into the thousands, and most of whose living graduates are resident in Massachusetts, - yet but fourteen of her sons are found in the legislature of the state. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and the dangers of incomplete education to-day are shown most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown...
...large part of this enthusiasm in the study of our tongue the English department is distinctly responsible, and all praise must be given to them for their share in bringing this about. We would congratulate the Advocate on its success in this latest venture. It is a thing that has long proved successful in other college publications and has generally succeeded in producing as good results as it has done in this case. Let us hope that the college may soon be endowed with a Monthly prize and a Lampoon prize; and the CRIMSON will then add the fourth towards...