Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...such a contest should be sufficient incentive for hard training on the part of those who intend to enter. The "Relay Race" is especially attractive, and we hope to see our six best runners on the track. The distance - thirty miles - is indeed rather long, but for this reason it will be all the more satisfaction for the team that is lucky enough to win it. We would suggest that the Harvard Athletic Association should offer some similar open event at its Spring meeting...
...because he is the editor of a rival paper, and because he is poor and is trying to work his way through college. We wish to say, therefore, that we do not expect to be injured in the least by the Harvard Register; and, secondly, that we have good reason for believing, from the letter of a reliable correspondent published in another column, as well as from other sources, that Mr. King is not a poor student who is working his way through college. Even if he were, however, he would have no business to do so in the role...
...dance was in progress when we arrived, and I was much surprised to see one old gentleman dancing gravely around alone. I inquired the reason. "He fancies himself the Pope," said one of the attendants, "and thinks that no one here is good enough to dance with him; and so he dances all by himself...
...Christmas vacation is to be lengthened to two weeks, and the spring recess to ten days, is most welcome to the entire College, - instructors as well as students. The Corporation are to be most heartily thanked for this extension of our times of rest. Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of instructors...
...February, forces us to do one of these two things. Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over about four months' work, in five or six subjects, in two weeks. The only reason given for the change is that it makes the college year more symmetrical by putting the Semi-annuals into the first half-year. It seems to us that an injustice is done by this shortening of the time when review work is possible and most effective...