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...their responsibility. But is it not the duty, as well as for the interest of every citizen, in or out of college, to insist upon an honest and efficient public service, free from the control of party patronage and the political boss? And should not educated Harvard men, whose watchword is "Truth" be among the first to forward the cause of the honest and intelligent administration of public office...
...Standing room only" was the watchword at the Boston Theatre Monday evening when Primrose and West's Minstrels gave their first performance. Although Puck, Life, Judge and the Lampoon were freely drawn upon for laughter-producing material, we cannot too strongly advise the Memorial Hall waiters to make it a religious duty to visit the Boston Theatre before giving their performance next week. It might be the means of adding several century-mellowed jokes to the repertoire of the end men of the Memorial Ethiopians...
...shall greatly appreciate a contribution. Even your recognition would be of incalculable value in adding us to raise the fund necessary to perpetuate the memory of the patriot whose thrilling utterance "The union must and shall be preserved," is now the watchword of this grand republic. I hand you bye laws, Governor Taylor's endorsement. etc., Awaiting your early and we sincerely trust, favorable reply, I am, dear sirs...
...less lasting than Lessing's, still the nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch-word is authority...
...table arises, orders the glasses to be refilled, then he invites all present to follow him in emptying their glasses in one draught. This fact is accomplished in a surprisingly short time, and then the emptied glasses are rubbed around on the table while some formula, the club's watchword is uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which the students take to empty a glass at one draught. If a newly initiated member, - a so-called "Fuchs" is present and becomes at all "fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need...