Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grounds on any afternoon of last week, he must have seen enough to convince him that foot-ball, if not the leading sport at present, is at least running a close race with other out-of-door exercises. It will not be owing to the season or to a want of interest, if the team does not show up as creditably as it did last autumn, but to the personal misfortunes of three of the best "kicks" of the old eleven. Such a condition of affairs can only be attributed to hard luck, and surely does not warrant our refusing...
EMBERS of the Sophomore class who want extra copies of the Class Songs can obtain them at 32 Holyoke or 10 Weld...
...what is the end of a college paper? What are the editors trying to do? At first I thought that they contemplated moral reform and spiritual advancement among the students; but I find on experience, much to my sorrow, that the sad and humiliating fact is that they want to make the paper sell, and have few motives higher than to be able to make their books balance. To do this they must please as many as possible, to secure a large circulation. And so it seems as if the programme might be profitably left to them, who know best...
...general verdict is, and to this conclusion the writer is driven by the fate of several previously rejected essays on "Etruscan Philology," that people want to be amused, and take the papers chiefly for that end. Of course there are different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose that any one who could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others...
...Alone I want...