Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusual a time as eleven o'clock, may at first seem rather remarkable, but a careful study of the programme for Monday evening will doubtless remove any questions that might have arisen in regard to that matter. Then, indeed it will very likely be a source of wonder, not that the hour was set so late, but that it was arranged for so early...
...college system. Mr. Danforth will undoubtedly take up this new labor with the same earnestness and vigilance which has always characterized his work in the assignment of students rooms, and we shall see a marked change in the appearance of our dormitories. Now that the appointment is made, we wonder why it was not thought of before, for the two duties suit each other admirably, and certainly no one better fitted to fill both offices could be found than Mr. Danforth...
...ready for the august members of the sophomore class at which symposium the freshman hosts should prepare themselves for either use or entertainment. Of course these notices are accompanied with the usual threats in case of their refusal. It may occur to many of our modern student readers to wonder how such conduct could be reconciled with the principles which even in those darkened days must have been present with the perpetrators, and where the boundary-line ran between it and the highway assault and robbery. Such, however, was the false reasoning of drink-loving students that they argued: "What...
...yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder if the Glee Club gathered on the steps of Holworthy or Matthews, and gave an hour to the entertainment of the college, - an act of kindness which met with all due appreciation, as was well shown by the cries of "more," "more," with which all such efforts were greeted...
...spring comes on, the time for the annual assignment of college rooms draws nearer, and those who so far have not been fortunate enough to get rooms in the yard begin to wonder whether they will be successful this year, or be thrown again upon the tender mercies of the Cambridge house holder. To these and possibly to others it may be interesting to hear how the distribution of rooms was effected before the introduction of the present lottery system...