Word: personality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student who made so vigorous a kick in yesterday's CRIMSON at the modest request that gentlemen leave their bage in the coat room of the library evidently labors under a misconception. No fair-minded person could raise the slightest objection to a student's taking into the library a receptacle for his books and papers. Moreover, the library officials are doubtless well aware that books can be purloined without the aid of a bag. The request appeals to those who would make the place a baggage room...
...classic fables have come down from early times under the name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same person. It is the doing of a comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless of the rights of others,- some of whom may be in the habit of annotating and marking their own books. The difficulty is that, so many evidences of the practice existing, men assume that...
...shells, exactly similar to those used by Yale for the past ten years, will be taken along. A careful canvass has been made of the candidates for the crew, and it is found that none will be disqualified by the clause in the Henley entrance requirements which prohibits any person who has done manual labor from rowing at that event. The expense is roughly estimated at $10,000. Of this about $3,000 has been either paid in or subscribed by the freshman and sophomore classes. The remainder will be raised from graduates, the Financial Union and the two upper...
Will some person who can speak with authority kindly explain under what system the date of the beginning of the Easter recess is fixed and why this year it should be as late as April...