Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There is, decidedly, ample room for improvement in the present Thayer Club. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how it could be worse. We think that few would agree with a writer in the last number of the Advocate, in his statement that the board at the Club is as good as can be obtained outside for $6 a week; aside from the attendant disadvantages mentioned by the writer, and the additional one, we fear, of uncleanliness in preparing the food. There can be little doubt that all disorder will cease in our new refectory; indeed, if the principle...
...Amherst Student, in an editorial, assigns its reasons for withdrawing from the Regatta in a straightforward, manly way which commands our respect, though we think her action a mistaken one. If the pledges of the Saratoga Rowing Association are fulfilled, Amherst will again enter the contest next year...
...printing these letters it is needless to say that the Magenta does not take upon itself the support of all its correspondents may say. Simply to show what the students of other colleges may think on matters of common interest, and what they may think fit to write, is all that is designed...
...very intimate with another it is often possible to make an arrangement by which they shall both enjoy the luxury of rooming alone, and yet be at no great distance from each other. As far as entertaining a great number of visitors is concerned, the under-classman may think it an advantage that tells wonderfully in favor of a chum, but a larger experience probably informs him that there are many inconveniences attending such a way of living. Very often, too, it happens that, from no desire of your chum's or your own, company men drop in because your...
More suggestive than any suggestion is the following statement, made without comment: "It has been a common opinion that prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves " (this part of the opinion, we think, has been generally abandoned), "but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There...