Word: serious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...missed not only by his intimates but by the class at large for the position he held among them, could never fail to be a source of satisfaction to a man who left before the conclusion of one term of service to take up another and more serious...
...effect upon college life. The centre page is a striking picture of the re-christened cruiser "Harvard" and is one of the best illustrations the Lampoon has printed for some time. The verses at the foot of the picture would do credit to the heart of a more ambitiously serious sheet than the Lampoon. The sketch "As Others See Us," shows Harvard as viewed by the Boston newspapers, according to which the whole college is on a martial footing. The rest of the pictures and the short stories are of the usual order. The editorial criticises a very common error...
...military drill here has been organized with a very serious purpose. Do not look upon it as an amusement or as a mere temporary thing. The corporation has long desired and hopes soon to have a permanent military organization here...
...padrone and sweating systems, which can be traced primarily to the influx of too many needy and incompetent Southern European immigrants are among the serious social evils, brought about by this congestive tendency. The growth of the padrone system, founded upon the dependence, not the indepennence, of the individual is far too threatening to the spirit of our institutions to be endured. In the sweating system we trace the relation of cause and effect between the great and increasing overflow of incompetent and undesirable immigration from Southeastern Europe and the rise and extension of our serious evils. The slums...
Make-up examinations for students who have satisfied the Recorder that their absence from the "regular mid-year examinations was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance" will be held as follows in the courses named below. The examinations will begin at 9.15 a. m., and, by the regulations must not extend beyond three hours...