Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduate opinion in regard to the advisability, or unadvisability of compulsory attendance at prayers. It maters not where a man lives, he should have some opinion on this affair of general college interest. So signing the petition is as legitimate for him as for anyone else. It is a thing which a man should do from principle rather than from personal convenience...
...scribbling books used to jot down the casual remarks of an instructor on some of the time-worn topics; but are in most cases noble quartos in which goes the very essence of the latest researches by our learned professors, who vie with each other to lay the "newest thing" before their attentive pupils...
...benefit of the class, what more can be looked for? A great deal more is looked for. They are rowing in order to beat Columbia next year at New London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details. The very first thing a crew has to learn is to keep time. Unless they do this there is no use in their ever going out on the water, for they would be beaten badly by a much inferior crew which did keep perfect time. And eighty-nine can learn this only by always keeping...
...close of the second week after the Christmas recess." The candidates must be balloted for at a time and place selected for the purpose, and the two men polling the highest number of votes will be declared elected. We hope that '89 will enter into the spirit of the thing by electing two earnest, representative men for her members, - not by a small majority, but by a large and enthusiastic vote. The conference, as it is now constituted, has much to interest every man in college, and '89's part in its deliberations are looked forward to with much interest...
...dropping of a lighted match, and every student should keep in mind the comparative lack of proper means for extinguishing a fire even though it might be very slight. The Harvard fire department, which many years ago effectually extinguished itself in attempting to extinguish an unpopular instructor, is a thing of the past, and will probably not be revived. Let each student, therefore, exert great care in his handling of combustibles...