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...undergraduates will be very brief, hardly worth the trouble of preparation, the love of long waiting, the remaining in Cambridge on a day when the crowd of Alumni will fill all the buildings and deprive you of seeing or hearing speeches, etc. If he undergraduates are content to abandon the escort, I should, for the above reasons, be glad. Yours truly, HENRY...
...journey in this, that or the other direction - 150 miles it may be - in order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting...
...lawyer has to pass; finally the lecturer will enlighten him upon the ultimate chances of success. The student will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice...
...abandon our long laments that these lectures, almost the most popular and most valuable lectures given here for several years, are held in Sever, for, though supported by members of the college at large, they were of no avail. But, this means of defending our interests having proved futile, we turn to the only other. If Sever 11 can not accommodate all, in and out of the college, who care to attend, then it is fair to argue that those for whom the lectures are especially intended, have first right to the seats. Do we ask too much when...
...ever before to have victory come to them, and thus gain some honor for the blue and white. They formerly rowed in the gymnasium belonging to the Columbia Grammar School; this, year, however, on account of the increased number trying for positions on the crew, they were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four o'clock. In order to accommodate the crew, a raised platform has been erected...