Word: plain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plain white flannel of our University crew is safe, we hope, from the attacks of the authorities. Let us run no "risk...
...mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into the statement, "Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken for granted that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard is not a theological school, although in prayers and compulsory church attendance we are afflicted with two relics and reminders of the time when it once was. Most earnestly do we wish that these interesting antiquities might be at once forwarded to Philadelphia, and left there...
...While the mark for a degree is low enough to allow all who so desire to enter and secure one, the number of required studies is being diminished, and experiments are being tried in voluntary recitations. The direction in which the policy is tending to advance is plain; as yet, however, while such a mixture of regulations exists, Harvard would seem to partake largely of the nature of a what...
Springs from the grassy plain...
Held carousal through the plain...