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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...tries to make you, who always wear laced shoes, believe that the Combined Bootjack and Towel-rack is an indispensable article, lingers as long in the room as the man who sells Bibles. Let no one infer that I think that students should not give in charity. Without doubt they might make the best possible use of some of their spare pocket-money by relieving real distress. But these people who haunt our rooms not only are a nuisance, but also prevent all true charity by offering such worthless objects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...possible, put the assembly into such good-humor that they attempted with great success the singing of one of the odes to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Toasts were then proposed and drunk with all the honors, to the various college and class interests, to which the responses were, without exception, in the happiest strain. In fact, it was observed that the remarks of the speakers became eloquent and imaginative in the direct ratio of the flight of time. Songs were interspersed and sung with a precision and effectiveness presenting a marked contrast to the earlier efforts of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS SUPPER. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...parallel bars, for more rowing-weights, for a lifting-machine, and other apparatus which we do not find here at present. That most useful exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space for him to indulge in it without being in imminent danger either of splitting open the head of a bystander as the ponderous club swiftly descends, or of meeting a like fate at the hands of another. Room, then, and the consequent increase in the variety of apparatus, is what is needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...meant but misplaced war-whoop; but the members of the Parietal Committee prefer to take their music straight. In short, the singing in the Yard must stop, unless the window-critics can refrain from their customary vociferous applause. The habit is boyish enough, at best, and can be relinquished without much trouble. Under the circumstances, we trust that we have heard the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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