Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...athletic sports Harvard seems to be suffering greatly by accidents. In the last issue of the Magenta mention was made of the serious injuries of two of our boating men. Since then, Mr. J. M. Sheahan, catcher of the Harvard Nine, has had the misfortune to break one of his fingers. This accident will incapacitate him for his position behind the bat, thereby very much weakening the Nine. Just at this time, above all others, is his loss most seriously felt...
...Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those of the Senior. An undergraduate, even, writing in a late Advocate, harping upon the somewhat stale theme, "When the College is merged into the University," etc., expresses serious objections to class feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard, cold, and avaricious," too? If such is the character of the big world, let us have the two realms as different as possible...
Such matters as these, far from exciting the indignation of the students, meet with their ridicule. A more serious bit of information has recently been given to us. For failing to hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions...
Though this is perhaps the most serious evil of their careless generosity, it is not nearly so vexatious as the daily calls of bejewelled purchasers of old clothes, clerical-looking venders of every useless article, and begging impostors who tramp up and down our stairs and hammer at our doors...
...will deny that the gift of Mr. Thayer was generous and judicious, that there should be in Cambridge an institution where poor students can obtain good food at small price. Acknowledging these facts, we must at the same time set forth what we regard to be the two serious faults of the Club. One arises from the nature of its constitution; the other from the natural increase in the number of members, which cannot be helped, and from the neglect of the Faculty, which could be helped...