Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to try for the University Nine are requested to present themselves at the new Gymnasium on Monday, at two o'clock. Entrance through the engine-room...
...however faithfully he has done his work for recitations, likes to go into a three-hour examination without making some review of the subject; nor, we think, does any man wish to study during the extremely short winter-vacation which is allowed us. But the new arrangement, which makes the Semi-annuals begin on the 21st of January instead of on the 6th or 7th of February, forces us to do one of these two things. Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over...
...students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard in the Herald, but, really, a paper like the Watchman, which pretends to respectability, ought to know better. We wish that the Boston clergymen would "agitate" the editor until he knows enough to keep from the columns of his paper statements which are not only false but preposterously absurd. We should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part...
...seems best to the Seniors to hold their class election at once, we wish to remind them that the best results can be secured only by forgetting all society lines. It is one unpleasant feature of our college life, that society and class feeling are inevitably opposed to each other. But Harvard is less open to this evil than most colleges, and the class of '80 is less open to it than most classes. Therefore we hope that the little society feeling which does exist will be entirely laid aside during the class election. The idea that each society must...
Without a wish once more to sing...