Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think that the time has come when the whole College should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the College of the scandal which they cause. We, therefore, promise to refrain from the use of firearms and explosives of any sort, either in celebrations of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our College course...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at whose suggestion the old Harvard Union was organized, has consented to address the present Union early in the next half-year on some subject connected with speaking. As Colonel Higginson has not yet fully regained his health, he does not think it safe to speak in the evening nor in a large hall. He will therefore speak in the afternoon, very likely on a Wednesday afternoon so as to give the members of English 6 and English 30 a chance to be present, and probably in Sever 11. Admission to Col. Higginson's talk must...
...first place it was urged that "there would be an endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank." This, I think, could be prevented by the marshals as it has been in the past. It is true that the increased number of men who would take part in the scrimmage might necessitate some more stringent regulation than has heretofore existed. It might be necessary for a rope to be drawn in a large circle around the Tree and held by the marshals. The Seniors, as they march in, could be required to keep their position as the rope...
...think the class has received distinctly a wrong impression as to the intention and methods of the Corporation Committee. No body could have the interests of the College more at heart than the men on this committee, or could have treated our committee more courteously. Our committee, on the other hand, was somewhat to blame for not taking more notice of the objections to the character of the exercises at our first joint meeting. Such objections were made and were reported to the class through the CRIMSON. Since the objections discussed at this meeting were principally against the seats...
...courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they do is to hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard...