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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HALL AND HANCOCK, Boston's popular hatters, have established an agency for their goods at Weinschenk's, same entrance as Thurston's. The College boys will find about what they want in head wear. They also sell suit and hat cases, gloves and umbrellas...
HALL AND HANCOCK, Boston's popular hatters, have established an agency for their goods at Weinschenk's, same entrance as Thurston's. The College boys will find about what they want in head wear. They also sell suit and hat cases, gloves and umbrellas...
...trouble is that for fear of lessening our chances of winning, we do not want to change until our rivals do,- we of Harvard, which has so often been first in reforms, fear to take the initiative...
...that only one such case of dirty work is liable to occur ought to be enough to stop the exercises. Finally, there is absolutely no regularity or order about the "scrimmage," except such as is furnished by the club organizations; and that is a regularity that none of us want. If the scrimmage had some of the points of football in it, there might be some reason for keeping it, but a pall mall rough-and-tumble exhibition can not be defended...
...strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument...