Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possibly some excuse for them, though it would seem that six months at college ought to be enough to teach most men to suppress the school-boy exuberance of spirits known as "freshness." If the offenders are upper-classmen, we can only feel sorry that men have to exist whose intellects are feeble enough to find enjoyment in such juvenile tricks...
...enough fresh air without creating a draught, to keep the atmosphere the Library from becoming so stifling and unhealthy, as it is now. If we cannot hope for improvement in the ventilating facilities in the Library, we certainly have a right to expect that those that do exist will be used as advantageously as possible...
...attend this meeting, as the first class dinner is a pleasant as well as important event in college life. By its means the members of a class are all brought together in a pleasant, social way that goes far towards strengthening the bonds of fellowship and friendship which should exist among the members of every class. The tendency at the present age is for all class feeling to be obliterated or swallowed up by the division into cliques and clubs. But as every college man is of necessity more or less identified with his class, so the importance of these...
...agitation for the repeal of the tax is a political expedient adopted by protectionists to divert public attention from the real issue presented by the large surplus. Their chief arguments are: (a) Appeals to the popular prejudices supposed to exist in the U. S. against excise duties, and (b) the fact that this is a "war tax" -considerations that do not call for the repeal...
...athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them has been taken for some time, as every one knows. But is the interruption of college work a very material one? Is there, in and among our athletic teams, such a spirit of "trickery"? Or are "hysterical demonstrations of the college...