Word: warnings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...congratulate the Foot-Ball Eleven on their success against Tufts Tuesday afternoon. The fall sports have opened well for Harvard, and we have every reason to expect that next spring and summer will find us in as good condition as we were last year. We would, however, warn our athletes not to be over confident; we would remind them that, although prestige is an excellent thing in its way, it will not win victories in the ball-field and on the river, unless backed by continued hard labor. In the game with Tufts, as in the games we have played...
...heavy capitals under his picture. Again, in attending to orders by mail, Memorial waiters, chemistry tutors, or college scouts have been stupidly returned for such men as Mr. Lowell, Norton, Bowen, or Goodwin. We have no personal feeling against the "Celebrity Photographer," but we feel it our duty to warn any succeeding class against such negligence, lack of taste, and incapacity as the Cambridgeport "Celebrity Photographer" has shown...
...believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices, and for giving him several awful warnings on the sin of hating a man because he wears a peculiar-shaped hat. Alas! I am afraid that in this respect the human race is incorrigible, so I will give the reader, instead of a tirade, some estimates of their character that I have formed from men's books...
DEAR JULIUS, - Let me warn you at the outset that I am going to bore you with some very sage advice, of which I sincerely trust you stand in no need. You are, by this time, fairly introduced to life at Neophogen, and are probably piously thanking Heaven for casting your lines in such pleasant places. Societies, flirtation with your classmates, the eider cellar, are before you in all their fascination. You are having your first taste of the gayeties of our Alma Mater, and as yet have hardly had time to stop and think. Now here my sermon begins...
...Junior and Senior years examinations become but a pleasant offset to recitations. If our residence here were prolonged to twice the present time, we should be extremely disgusted if an accident should prevent an examination, and would warn all our friends from taking the elective of a man who cared so little for keeping his promises...