Word: various
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tree and its companion follies - might well be abolished; and if the oration and poem were deemed worthy of perpetuation, they could be delivered either with the College parts, or on a separate occasion. On another day a concert in the Sanders Theatre would be an agreeable event. The various spreads, etc., could take place on various afternoons, and need not interfere with each other. And if the societies wished to have any special ceremonies of their own they might perfectly well do so. At the same time, a boat-race, a ball-match, and an athletic tournament would...
...Canada Foot-Ball Association, and it was then decided to play that afternoon instead of Monday morning, as was intended. At 2.45 P. M. the rival teams appeared on the Montreal Cricket Grounds, on St. Catherine Street, - the Harvards in their handsome new uniforms, the Canadas in various costumes, representing the different clubs to which they belonged. The teams were made up as follows...
...from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat it familiarly. And books which look as if you never read them are almost as bad as no books at all. It is a good plan, by the way, to keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books I need not say much. You are not fool enough to throw away your money on second-rate second-hand editions of ancient classics, nor yet to overload yourself with modern English novels. French novels are all right...
...discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir up ill-feeling between the ruling and the ruled. At the same time, wanton destruction of property is in fact condemned by the public opinion of the majority of the undergraduates; and if certain notions of etiquette did not seal the lips of many, this public opinion would...
...foot-ball team to Canada, then the boat-club, and so on, until we are forced to cry out with the poet, "How long, O Lord, how long!" Money is one of the necessary evils of this life, and it needs no argument to show that the various interests of the College cannot stand without subscriptions. For all that, the thing is not to be pushed to extremities; and it might be well for the promoters of the next grand scheme to consider whether our long-enduring community could not manage to exist without that particular sport or what...