Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hope that Ninety-six will look out for it in future. Moreover when the class is dismissed the men generally make a great rush from Boylston Hall to Memorial, regardless of trees and shrubs on the lawns. In this manner several valuable plants have been badly injured. We can understand, considering the unpleasant system of general tables and checking at Memorial, how each man wishes to get there as soon as possible, but it should not be done at the expense of our trees and shrubbery...
...remedy this evil, we must first understand the positive side of the question and this involves a knowledge of the real function of marriage. Marriage, as a modern institution is the result of a gradual evolution from many forms of living. First there was the patriarchal in which man asserted absolute superiority over woman, and captured as many wives as he could. Next came the matriarchal, an inevitable reaction from the former, in which marriage by capture was succeeded by marriage through captivation. Then came the union of one man with one woman for life, but against this the great...
...understand the situation two facts should be remembered. Harvard and Yale have a four years' agreement to play football at Springfield on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, while Yale and Princeton are members of the Intercollegiate Football Association, by a rule of which the two leading teams of the year before play in New York on Thanksgiving...
...energy with which the Shooting Club has begun its work this fall. It is very desirable that we win the match with Yale this year and we are in a fair way to do so if the interest already taken in the club be kept up. This year we understand the number of candidates is fairly large, though the officers still hope that there are new men in college who can shoot, and will enter their names with the others. Practice shoots will come off this fall twice each week, while last year only one a week was held...
...understand that in our editorial on Memorial Hall, we misstated two things of which we had been misinformed and which we now wish to rectify. We were told that the Board of Directors had transferred this fall three club tables to the general tables, whereas it seems that last spring the Board had reserved three tables to be made general tables if necessary, but that it had not been found necessary to transfer them. We were also told that the Overseers had suggested that two more men be added to each club table, but the Board had refused...