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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...University and in its progress since the days when Mr. Nathaniel Eaton and his usher Nathaniel Briscoe comprised the faculty. Such a review shows how indissolubly the college is linked with the names of those who are best known in the history of the Common wealth...
...those days absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...
...Porter 2, Earle or Slade bow. This crew of course had many faults but occasionally they did pretty fair work. Their chief faults as a crew were a general failure to control the slides, and to sit up at the finish. These faults together with a general jerkiness were common to all the men, who of course had individual faults of their own. C. F. Adams, 2d, of the Law School coached the men occasionally, but outside of that very little coaching was done...
...Brookline Common yesterday Hopkinson's defeated Roxbury Latin School eleven 18 to 6. Brewer played finely for Hopkinson's, while their team work was superior to Roxbury Latin eleven...
...tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates, is contemptible. The only excuse that ever exists for the practice, namely that it is fair to charge some commission for the trouble taken in getting tickets, is none at all in the case of students...