Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...RAND. JR., '88.In the course of the next few weeks two editors will be elected from the sophomore class, provided sufficient merit is shown by the candidates. Eighty-eight has not by any means been backward in contributing to the paper, but the trouble has been in lack of perseverance. Because a communication is rejected is no reason why a candidate should cease writing, on the contrary it ought to cause him to redouble his efforts, and write until an article is accepted. Communications on timely topics, articles on almost any subject connected with educational, college or athletic matters...
...Looks backward to another place...
...confidence required to pursue this policy. There is always something that has been forgotten to be looked up, and one last look is apt to suggest another. Tutoring is also extensively resorted to, and the students who are willing, for a consideration, to give their time to aiding their backward companions are kept busy. Some men make a business of this tutoring, and, if successful, win a college reputation. The fact that tutoring exists is, of course, known to the faculty, and sometimes encouraged by that body. At any rate, these student instructors have saved many a man from being...
...results give promise of a very interesting university meeting for to-morrow, and raise the hopes and chances of Harvard's success in the contests at Mott Haven a week from to-morrow. The great advantage of these class meetings is that they bring out men who would be backward in entering the contests of a university meeting, where contestants from the whole university have to be met. Their great success this year is strong evidence of the benefit they do the athletic interests of the college...
...away the programmes for the winter sports, instead of charging, as heretofore, the five coppers at which these printed cards were rated. This is surely a giant stride in the right direction,- all the more gratifying at the present crisis when the course of the university seems to be backward. The prayer petition refused, Greek downtrodden, foot ball abolished,- at such a time, what a relief to find one body of men so alive to the interests of the hour ! Yet stay. Can it be that this unexpected, and reckless waste of money is prompted by the expectation...