Word: timely
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...month, he was confronted by the then Registrar, Cusset Jeremy Whitcombe by name, who said, "Brown, I shall be obliged to send you a Private and Public at once, next a Special, and the week after a Suspension, - so I 'd advise you to make the most of your time...
...seen. I thought I heard some one in the distance repeating, "Arma virumque cano; Trojae -"; but I may have been mistaken; and, in fact, I am a little afraid that my imagination, always strong, on this occasion completely ran away with me. However, since that time I have lost much of my admiration for my former idol, and am rather getting to think Tom Brown the better fellow...
...University where we are secure from interruption, and many students find it far more convenient to work there than in their rooms. Again, those of us who want to read the magazines before they fall into the clutches of the professors and are taken from us for an indefinite time, would have a greater chance of seeing them; and we should be somewhat better protected against those few students who reach the Library early in the afternoon, select all the most desirable periodicals, pile them upon the table and proceed to read them at their leisure. Evening access...
...Advocate's attack on the Executive Committee seems a little ill-timed, when we reflect that the action of that committee was indorsed by a boating meeting, and when their reasons for "procrastination" are known by most men in college. It does not seem so difficult to apprehend why the Executive Committee should hesitate to bind the College to a race with Cornell, at present our most doughty adversary, when they foresaw as possible what has now happened. We are at a loss to know to whom the term "boating representatives" applies; if by it are meant the crew...
...crew of '77 and '78, having won three victories in two successive years, have decided to disband and make room for the younger rowing men in the University. While we regret as much as any one this action taken by the crew at a time when Harvard seems likely to lose its reputation for good rowing, we think it is more fitting to thank them for what they have achieved than to visit them with abuse and sarcasm. It is unfair to complain if men, who have devoted their energies during three years to the interests of boating, should...