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ONLY seven Freshmen have so far joined the Athletic Association. Freshmen are reminded that every one connected with the University must be a member of the Association in order to gain admittance to the approaching tournaments at the Gymnasium. All who wish to join the association are requested to call at the Secretary's room, 29 Weld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

...that they can make their calculations for the work of the rest of the year accordingly. We join in this cry, and respectfully urge upon our instructors the propriety of looking over the books, and announcing the marks as soon as convenient. In this connection it is proper to call the attention of the Faculty to the fact that some professors are not accustomed to make public the marks of the mid-year examinations. This has always seemed to us a wrong policy. If a man has done well, a knowledge of this fact encourages him to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

...good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this gentleman that you consider hole to be rather strong he politely informs you that had you known anything better (I suppose he means worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS HARVARD A HOLE? | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...deep-dyed villains which their enemies would have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which I should call characteristic of gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure that by such behavior a man gains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...becomes stroke of the crew, other men, no matter what their taste may be, will respect and admire him, as men on our crews have in times past been respected and admired. No one will call him a fool for his pains, and hint they could have done as well by making fools of themselves in the same way. If he rides, he will have admiration of another kind perhaps, but he will be acknowledged, all the same, to have done something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REMEDY. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »