Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days, and, as a matter of fact...
...were rowing down the river. These, with the few singles, suggested what a lively sight there might be if the fifty or sixty boats that are lying on the rests were on the river, and a few hundred more students of "the first University in the country" would think it a greater accomplishment to swing an oar than to roll a cigarette...
...last week. Professor Agassiz has now returned to Cambridge; and after consulting him, steps will be taken to ascertain what position Yale means to maintain in regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order to secure a race with her, we would be willing to do everything and submit to everything that gentlemen could...
...intents and purposes there is no hazing at Harvard. Yet in each class a few men are to be found who think it necessary to their own reputations to exhibit their superiority, - a thing which they do in the manner most natural to themselves. Of late years the same class pride which used to favor the obnoxious practice has been enlisted on the side of law and order. When a hazing band was organized this year, their operations were effectually checked by representatives from that Sophomore society to which the College owe its thanks for still another reform...
...orator of the class of '76 told us the story of the last rush between Sophomores and Freshmen, we thought we should never hear anything more about hazing at Harvard. It is true that Princeton undergraduates still indulge in this old-time custom, and that the Faculty at Yale think it best to suppress the publication of the residences of Freshmen in view of the periodical cruelty of the Sophomoric soul; but hazing at Harvard we expected to see only in the pictures of "Student Life," or in the columns of the Boston Transcript...