Word: adds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the crew. We know how hard it is to resist the charms of the season, but the honor of victory will prove no small reward for such praiseworthy labor. With the success of their predecessors before them, we would urge the freshmen to strain every nerve to add one more triumph to the list of former classes...
...more and more indifferent, will need a fresh start if they hope to hold the lead, as they have done of late. '85 brought in several very fine players, but beyond these there seems to be no material forthcoming to make up the team in future years, and to add to the discomfort of the supporters of the game, several of the finest players will leave next year. With these facts in view, our prospects are threatening. And yet we dare assert that a far greater cause of dissatisfaction among the lacrosse men is the lack of support shown them...
...Boston Advertiser in mentioning a wealthy Italian who had amassed his fortune in the "profession" of bottle-gathering, says that "the young men of our colleges who are standing on 'the threshold of active life,' should bear in mind this new profession." It add that "a good many young men on emerging from college have a larger capital of empty bottles than of information." The Boston Advertiser should bottle up such remarks for future use as they are not needed at present...
...HERALD: I lately saw a suggestion in your editorial column, that examinations for the removal of conditions should be held in the fall, at the same time as the entrance examinations. Your suggestion is so sensible, and open to so few objections, that I hardly think it necessary to add anything to the arguments advanced in your editorial. But I would ask you to urge the proposed change, and endeavor to arouse the other college papers to a perception of the good that must arise from such a measure. Owing to a large amount of regular work, men are often...
...hiding screen and could tell, if he would, why it takes fifteen minutes to get a cup of coffee and two minutes to have a steak and fried potatoes cooked to order. He might also explain why it is that, although the students have full power, yet they cannot add pickles to the bill of fare without consulting a body of men known as the corporation, who have invariably met just the day before and will not meet again for a month, so that petitions to the board of directors are very much like the pension claim...