Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Sept. 25. - Grinds begin work...
...That begin -" He sought the rail...
...room was a fair type of the hideous abodes which our students make for themselves. The signs may disappear by Junior year; a few books which show the inmate's literary appreciation may begin to appear. But the imitation rugs, the walls covered with bad engravings, worse heliotypes, and trash of all sorts, the two sorts of chairs, - the ugly and the uncomfortable, - will remain as before. Harvard men ought soon to realize that a room to be student-like and comfortable need not be crowded, untidy, and cheap-looking, and that a few real ornaments are better than...
...chances should be carefully guarded against. Thus, it is a matter much to be regretted, that some of the unsuccessful candidates have ceased active training. It is to be hoped that these men, inasmuch as the team is by no means definitely decided upon, will change their minds and begin play again. And even if they see no hope for themselves, it does not seem too much to ask that they should continue, in order to give the team the practice they so much need...
...last Wednesday, the day appointed for the beginning of Chinese instruction at Harvard, no applicants made their appearance, and the first recitation was indefinitely postponed. This is owing to the fact that the language which our new professor is sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself...