Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first week or two at the beginning of the year is always a time of leisure. No one pretends to study, for in an elective system, as in a horse-race at a county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often...
...FRESHMAN last week started out late in the evening to find 14 Highland Street and leave with the Dean an excuse from prayers for the rest of the year. "Never put off until to-morrow," eleventh hour...
REGULATION OF SEATS AT MEMORIAL HALL. - Each member will himself sign the Table List every Thursday noon. Every seat not reported occupied every Thursday will be filled from the list of applicants. Every person whose name is reported will be charged board for the ensuing week. Notice of withdrawal must be given one week in advance; otherwise, board will be charged for the week. Members desiring to change or exchange seats must leave a request therefor on the Auditor's desk. Seats may be retained during temporary absence by notifying the Auditor in writing, and claims for deduction for such...
WHAT a change it is to return from one's summer wanderings to the bustle and hurry of college life! Everything presents such a rude contrast to the things we had become accustomed to during the summer. In a week or two, to be sure, we have dropped into the old ruts, and are going along as smoothly as if we had never been away, but for the first few days everything seems strange...
...confidence which the Crimson has always expressed for the Nine, even after the unlucky Cambridge game, has proved itself not misplaced. Three games won from Yale in one week is a record the Nine and the College can well be proud of, especially since the scores were so largely in our favor. Knowing that Harvard had the better nine, and feeling confident of victory even after two defeats, we are not inclined, after the manner of the Yale News, "to allow our brains to be turned wild or to be driven crazy with rapture"; victory has perched herself too frequently...