Word: using
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...peelers interfere with our after-dinner reveries, her people crowd our conveyances to Boston, her factories disgust us. Her mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student's heart. The Port is of the nineteenth century, shoppy; we who feel - to use a vulgarism - the ancient and patrician oats of our two hundred and thirty-ninth year (Freshmen of the present year especially) will no longer bear the plebeian yoke...
...Entry of Matthews, that have heretofore added rather to the completeness of the building than to the convenience of its occupants, have, through the efforts of Mr. Mercur, '77, been lately fitted up in a comfortable style, and are now enjoyed by those who have the privilege of their use...
MANY Juniors went last Sunday evening to hear Rev. Mr. McKenzie preach on the Blessing of the Old Testament, - a very interesting theme for this class. Finding the church closed, they listened to some pithy missionary statistics, but learned little of practical use; the only resource was the Volume itself, which, we believe, was thoughtfully placed on the shelf at the Library...
...notice on account of its object. The subject of impure conversation in college is one that to be handled effectively requires both abilities as a writer and a thorough knowledge of those to whom it is addressed. No mere decrying against a lamentable fact can be of any possible use, and threats are worse than idle. Our columns are open to any able pen in the interests of reform, but we must know the hand that holds the pen, as well as judge of the capability of the article to effect so important an object...
Those of us who use the rooms continually, as many do, should certainly assist in supporting them; yet, evident as this is, it often happens that these very men are the least willing to subscribe. Such men should be reminded in the most emphatic terms that they are as much out of place there as they would be in the rooms of any other association or society in College to which they do not belong...