Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inmates of the middle entry of Thayer who rushed out of their rooms at half past eleven o'clock last Friday night with the thought that a tragedy was occurring in the entry, were disappointed. They found only the remains of a large common cracker which some gentleman with a keen sense of humor had exploded on the third landing...
...found impossible to have all the sparring and wrestling upon one day, without making that meeting both long and tedious. The only alternative, then, was to abolish the first ladies' day entirely, and to reserve but one day for the presence of the fair sex. This, they thought, would not meet with favor at the hands of the students, so the old arrangement was followed out for another year...
Instead of issuing a supplementary list of topics. it is thought best that anyone who wishes to choose for thesis or final examination a topic not in the pamphlet, should first get the advice of an instructor who has special acquaintance with the topic chosen, and should then bring or mail to the forensic instructor a written recommendation from this adviser, declaring the topic a suitable one for the announced purposes of the forensic work. The forensic instructor may then at his pleasure approve the chosen topic as a substitute for any in the pamphlet...
...work, without impairing its efficiency as a university, and with a very great gain in the spiritual manhood of its faculty and in the manly freedom of its students in their personal spiritual development. Indeed, the day is already at hand when Harvard begins to lead the higher religious thought of the country...
...examination period darken our days. We are all prone to be in a rather irritable frame of mind, and are apt to become excited over trifles which pass unheeded in happier times. This state of feeling has been shown in past years by incessant complaints of the thought-lessness of those musically-inclined students who persist in keeping up a vigorous course of piano or violin practice during examination time, greatly to the annoyance and indignation of their temporarily studious neighbors. But this year there seems to be a lull in this species of vexation. Our sanctum is still...