Word: words
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...efficient they may be, can bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment. Do they want other events? If they do, and will kindly write word to that effect, their wishes shall be considered. But if at the spring meeting there are not more entries than there were this fall, I shall advocate postponing athletics at Harvard until the interest is more general...
...WORD to those who have been assessed, and wish to vote at the coming election: if any one has been refused registration by the city clerk, he may bring his case before the Board of Aldermen, who have the final decision in the matter, on Saturday, Monday, or Tuesday evenings next. The registration list will close at ten o'clock Tuesday evening, the 29th, and it is of course understood that no one can vote unless his name is on the list. The matter is worth some trouble, and we hope that none will fail to present themselves before...
...graduates to defray the expense of sending a crew to England had been declined; several members of the old Eight had finally decided not to row again, and the challenge from Yale had been laid on the table until an organization of a crew could be effected. In a word, matters looked very "blue." Since then a change has taken place in the state of affairs. Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Crocker have consented to take their old seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates...
...will be obtained in time to make all the arrangements. Perhaps the announcements were not made nor the subscription-lists opened soon enough. Whether this be so or not, there is something else to account for this failure: the concerts are no longer fashionable. We once thought fashion a word that the enlightened people of Cambridge carefully erased from their Webster's and Worcester's, but a residence of a few years here has made us wiser...
...zealous to take-warning by the fate of others, or too blind to heed the smiles and sneers of their classmates. The prudent man will stand aside, and let others make martyrs of themselves. Farewell, Freshman. We have more to warn to-night. Remember the watch-word, Policy! Farewell...