Word: ye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every Harvard student may well be interested in the proposition made by Moses King to reprint that admirable work by F. G. Atwood, - one of the founders and the most prolific contributor of the Harvard Lampoon, - entitled "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Studente." This is one of the brightest and most harmonious collections of college caricature that has ever appeared, and Mr. King will have a new edition made by the Christmas recess provided a sufficient number of copies are ordered in advance to secure him against loss...
...They that needlessly frequent the kitchen shall be non plusht by the president" is an old rule of the college, meant, doubtless, to suppress gluttony. On the other hand the following appears among the proceedings of the overseers: "At a meeting of the overseers ye 30 day of ye 3d month For as much as the overseers have been certified that there hath been uncomfortable defects in the diet of the students as also in their lodging: It is ordered that the Corporation speedily inquire into the causes [14] thereof, & take order with the Steward & Treasurer or any other Colledg...
...Yale News, speaking of the general satisfaction felt in Cambridge over the result of our game with Yale, says: "Restrain yourselves, ye men of Harvard, lest your joy be turned to grief after the second game...
American students now enter college at the average age of seventeen. We have recently seen an old English book with the date of 1785, in which the average age of "ye freshmen at ye College of Harvard" is given as thirteen years and six months...
...ye too, of the famed Porcellian brood...