Word: respectable
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CONSIDERING the frequent interchange of courtesies between the Advocate and the Crimson, and the respect, in spite of occasional differences of opinion, which each has entertained for the other, we were much surprised at the tone of a recent editorial in our esteemed contemporary. The fiery and excited effusion we refer to was written ostensibly to show the condition of the boat-clubs, but in point of fact to relieve some one who was smarting under imaginary injuries of his pent-up feelings. The pettiness and flippancy of the Advocate's criticism do not need comment; neither...
...fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were badly shattered. There is little enough at Harvard to venerate, and that little should be carefully preserved. Such customs, though perhaps barbaric relics of the past, are deserving of some respect; and to interfere with them when they occur so seldom, and disturb the comfort of so few, seems to us wholly unnecessary...
Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss of one whose high moral character, and earnestness in study and recreation, endeared him to all, and won for him a position of influence and respect among...
...answer had not then been returned. We have since learned that the petition was not granted for several reasons. Our base-ball prospects then looked gloomy enough, but matters have improved somewhat of late. The language of the guide-book of the League Association is not altogether clear with respect to amateur clubs like ours. But on careful investigation, and by means of a good deal of questioning, we find that our nine will not be excluded from playing on the grounds of the Bostons except with the six clubs that form the league. Our nine cannot play with those...
SUETONI D. JULIUS, '80.IT may perhaps be gratifying to many of our fashionable beaux, a race of animals for which I have a special respect, to know the antiquity of a part of their dress so valuable to them as the pantaloon. Pelontier, in his Hist. Celt., L. 2, c. 6, and Cluvenius, in his Germ. Antiq., L. 1, c. 16, plainly describe it; but not to trouble them with what Commodore Trunnion calls outlandish lingos, I extract the following passage from the valuable history of Dr. Henry, the authenticity of which on the most minute as well...