Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...underneath his window and amused themselves by throwing firecrackers and torpedoes against the panes. Such childishness is not to be tolerated at Harvard; and childishness is a mild term for such ungentlemanly conduct. We are glad to say that student opinion condemns all nonsense of this kind, and we trust that in future celebrations, no amount of excitement will make Harvard students forget the respect due to instructors and their own positions as gentlemen...
...meant anything like an eventual reporting of disorderly students to the Dean, I venture to say that not a single one of all the faculty-members who unanimously passed the vote ever conceived of the possibility of such a thing. The vote was a bonafide declaration of a trust that the students, if left entirely to their own counsels, would permanently guard a permanent interest of the university more efficiently than the faculty has ever been able to guard it. How they should do this we did not undertake to decide or enquire. We merely named an existing student-body...
...feeling of relief is felt throughout the college, now that the crucial test of the Princeton game is past. The nine henceforth goes on to victory, with the belief and trust of the whole body of undergraduates to strengthen and encourage them...
...committee has resigned, and the control of the yard is now in the hands of the students as a body. Let the true manliness and sober good-judgment of the undergraduates guide the celebrations of the future. We must feel the weight of the trust that is given to us by the faculty...
...longer. Encouraged by a new rumor that the Harvard fielders had burst bloodvessels in chasing home runs, they descended upon the coveted fence and took possession. They had not been there long. however, when a party of sophomores arrived on investigation bent. These new comers declined to trust to rumor. As custodians of the sacred fence, they had to preserve their holy trust, and until authentic tidings of victory came the freshmen must go. It wasn't a question of law, it was a question of fact - and half the freshmen were 150 miles away. And so the others sadly...