Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dalzell, Yale '91, is a candidate for pitcher's position on next year's nine. He is a swifter pitcher than Stagg, but is not expert with the curves. It is thought that Osborne, '88 Sheff, will catch...
...verse "At Evening" is rather a commonplace production; "The New Year" is well rounded, but lacks strength and any noticeable beauty of thought. As for "Bits from the H. P. C. Play" they can hardly be excused even on the score of their being mere "padding" to fill up the number. While such versifying is very good for a song when the listeners won't hear the words in any way, it seems rather hard to expect anyone to enjoy reading them...
...Pelliparius" does not pretend "to represent Harvard thought": he simply writes of his experiences at Harvard and of such Harvard customs and institutions as will, in his estimation, interest his friends at Andover. It is difficult to find either lunacy or vicious mindedness in such a course; and further, I cannot see what difference it would make in anyone's belief whether he used his true name or an assumed one. A FRIEND OF "PELLIPARIUS...
Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man and certainly a good liar one if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools who wanted them.- Amherst Student...
...crowds about the various college buildings yesterday indicated that something important was going on. The announcement of the examinations was the cause of the excitement as it is every year. That this announcement was welcome to anyone would be an overdrawn assertion but that some men thought it a degree more bearable than others, no good observer could fail to notice. The man who finds all his examinations coming within the first five days and that he will then have a two weeks' vacation, looks triumphantly at the struggling mortal next to him who sees with horror that his first...