Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...loves congruities, and as a member of the graduating class, the writer would vigorously protest against the cap being separated from the gown. Surely those who witnessed the class day exercises of last year could not fail in being struck with the incongrity of the action when the seniors removed their caps in entering the auditorium of Sanders Theatre. It jarred a little upon ones sense of fitness. The cap, indeed, is not a hat to be removed during exercises but on the contrary to be worn. In Cambridge and Oxford its place is thus understood. The unique effect...
...communication in regard to rowing is interesting and well worth consideration. The writer is a well known college graduate who does not at present care to come out prominently in connection with the matter. Still his suggestion may appeal to others who are concerned in our rowing affairs. The outcome of this year's race is of course a matter of conjecture, but we believe that when the climax is reached, it will be found that Harvard has come nearer than ever before to a definite system of rowing. Nevertheless she has not so far perfected her stroke that...
...University Boat Club is hardly able financially to bear the expense of such an undertaking. If there are, as the writer suggests, graduates who would be willing to subscribe to a scheme of this nature, let them make their generosity known in a practical and definite way. We venture to say that there would be no difficulty here in carrying out the suggestion if the necessary funds could be secured. That these would have to come from outside friends is almost certain. Consequently until there is some substantial guarantee of the interest of the graduates in some such plan...
...writer of this communication was confined to his room for several days and suffered for as many weeks, last winter, from a severe cold contracted in the manner described above, and he has good reason to believe that much of the sickness which prevailed so extensively among the students during the past season was due to similar causes...
...year close without earnestly appealing to the Corporation, or to those who would have the matter in charge, to remedy the unsatisfactory accommodations in the gymnasium for bathing. This is an old plea which has long been put to the college authorities without receiving any attention from them. The writer of the communication this morning has treated the question in a way which ought to have some influence, coming as it does on the top of so many complaints...