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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strongly built, and dressed as men dressed long ago; his face was pallid and strangely contorted; a heavy rope was knotted around his neck and trailed upon the floor. I was about to offer the figure a chair when it occurred to me that it might be his custom to take rest by hanging himself up; and having no conveniences for performing that operation, I hesitated. At the same moment the apparition grasped the rope with both hands, and, by a mysteriously complicated movement, caused himself to perform a complete somersault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ALAS! POOR GHOST." | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...money which is very small. On general principles, we are opposed to any sort of connection between the general public and the race. It is purely a college affair, with which the public should have but a passive interest. During the past few years, however, it has been the custom to talk and write about the College Regatta as if it were some professional contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...which at present flourish at Harvard require for their support an amount of money which, in the aggregate, reaches a very considerable sum. Several of the societies have so large expenses that the proper management of their funds requires a considerable degree of financial experience. It has been the custom from time immemorial to appoint to the office of treasurer some student whose life has, until that moment, been divided between study and play, and whose time is generally pretty thoroughly occupied without his financial duties. The result of this arrangement is that, although no instance of dishonesty has ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUNC EST BIBENDUM. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then, that students interested in the matter should start a petition for keeping the hours of recitation throughout the year as they at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

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