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...works; but we, poor students, are kept close to the fast revolving grindstone, and are allowed no opportunity to learn the personal history of the Father of His Country. This complaint is time-honored, and doubtless will continue to be so, but still we repeat it in the vain hope that the rulers some time will hear our prayers. Why should not Harvard College fittingly observe this legal holiday? It certainly would be a benefit to all of us, immediately after the midyears, to have a day of rest. Everybody has some odd jobs to be done which have been...
...autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much to expect them to intercede for the waiters, who have certainly been ill-treated: but the ten o'clock symposiums must be stopped even...
...constantly have these two things: a vast number of young fellows running about the country, doing almost anything and doing it ill; and on the other hand, a considerable number of places looking almost in vain for somebody to do the best work...
...regularly alone, not forgetting, it is said, to put up the advertising board for his own sole notification each week, calling himself to order, proceeding conscientiously with his solitary rehearsal, practicing upon his flute his accustomed part until the hour of duty was complete, and so striving, not in vain, to keep the sacred flame alive. One might say with perfect truth that the Pierian Sodality attended those rehearsal...
...sophomores of the college of Liberal Arts at the Boston University have voted to give the freshmen a reception on Friday night, Feb. 9. Hopeful '90 has not worked in vain for verily his ideas have been carried out in an institution near Harvard...