Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity eleven did not do much work yesterday afternoon. The men practiced the different plays for three-quaters of an hour but did not line-up for the regular practice game. The coachers thought it best for the men to have a rest yesterday and today so that they will be in good condition for tomorrow's game...
...will probably tax the capacities of the town to the utmost. The chances of Princeton's winning the game are now becoming the main subject of discussion. It is well known that Harvard's team is an exceptionally strong one, and our team, barring accidents to the men, is thought to be much superior to last year...
...present year will probably mark the institution of a new custom and the revival of one of our old ones which was thought to have died out several years ago. The new custom is the wearing of the academic cap and gown by the seniors on Sundays during the whole year and not merely for a few weeks preceding commencement. The other is one of our most time-honored customs. Formerly each year in the fall occurred the freshman-sophomore "cane spree." This was held some moonlight night on the grass in front of Witherspoon Hall. Three men from each...
...profitable experience with the Prospect Union classes or the Home Library groups the future physician visits the sick child; and any man who looks forward to helping the unfortunate is enabled to make a good start, and add to the charm of his college days a bit of thought for somebody else...
...increasingly in operation, of late years, at Harvard. As study becomes ever freer and more invigorating, and the appeal to purpose more effective, the horizon of the student broadens and his pulses quicken with a desire to be of some account to his fellow men. The turning of the thought of the time more and more to the welfare of the masses is doubtless an influence from without, affecting in this same direction the university and the student The result, thoroughly inevitable and legitimate, is an unaffected humanitarian impulse, sustained in one man or another, as the case...