Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bicycling Club, we are informed, will be the event of the coming season. It is rumored that as soon as the river is open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress. But the greatest advance we have yet noticed in this direction is the organization...
...influence of the College Press on the post-office officials, the Advocate to the contrary notwithstanding. A member of '79 suggested to a friend who is connected with the Boston Post-Office the want that the students felt of a letter-box in the Yard. The one now in use is the result...
SOME of the students boarding at Memorial Hall may enjoy the statement in the President's Report, that "the young men who daily use this superb building are for the most part those whose previous lives have been least enriched by familiarity with artificial objects of dignity and beauty, and whose enjoyments are always restricted by an imperative economy...
...complains of the Sophomores especially. I will venture to say that no Freshman class was ever better treated by the Sophomores than the present one. It has always been the custom for the Sophomores to look after the little boys, and to forbid them the use of canes and other dangerous weapons until they are old enough to know how to manage them. Their late murderous design against a Boston policeman (which I am happy to say only deprived him of an ear) shows the folly of allowing them to carry canes at all. Instead of spending their weekly allowance...
...whom I have spoken on the subject - and we often talk about it, since we can now look back over our course - agree unanimously in saying that they have had quite enough of the undergraduate life. They don't think that a longer stay here would be of any use...