Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...discussion in College circles, it would seem, than any other articles published here this year. In our number to-day will be found two contributions on these subjects of marked importance, and taken in connection with what has already appeared, they seem to cover the ground of discussion so well that it is probable we shall publish nothing further in regard to them. The general interest taken by undergraduates in this discussion has made us so sceptical as to the real existence of that indifference, that we fear any future agitation of the question will partake of the nature...
...class elements voting, as we are informed one has already done, to conduct this election wholly without regard to their society or association interests; or, at least, declaring publicly what action may be expected from it, and whether or not an open election is to be an only too well rehearsed farce...
...object of the offensive articles was to sell the paper, they have been eminently successful, for dozens of Harvard men have purchased these monuments of Yale's lack of courtesy. If their object was to widen the breach which exists between the two colleges, they were equally well adapted to their purpose. But they have certainly injured the reputation of Yale in other colleges, and it is to be hoped that they have injured the Record among the better classes at Yale...
...term "sporting the oak" has but little significance here at Harvard, and it would be well if, in this custom as in others, we followed the example of our English cousins. We have often heard, and oftener felt, the justness of the complaint that no one can "sport his-oak" here without running the risk of offending any of his friends who may happen to knock and not be admitted. A student is apt to think, when a man shows he is unable to work with him sitting by idle, and interrupting with a remark now and then, that...
...this has been extensively copied, it may be well to state that the proper figures are 252 Freshmen at Harvard, and 167 at Yale. The Freshmen in all departments at Harvard will number nearly five hundred...