Word: conductivities
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...college so large as Harvard there is often times a tendency for naturally strong athletic men to keep themselves too much in the background. This arises from the fact that among so large a number each one thinks there are many better men than himself to conduct the various interests of the college, and he of course feels duty bound not to put himself forward. Foot-ball will be the object of main interest for sometime to come. Let every man who has ever played the game show himself upon Holmes Field prepared to engage in the practice games...
...remove all the petty annoyances and unpleasant features that have characterized so many previous class days. Foremost among the many evils they have remedied is the indiscriminate circulation of tickets, by which very objectionable persons were formerly enabled to gain admittance to the yard and halls. We commend the conduct of the class committee of '82 to those of future classes, and extend to them the sincere thanks of the college for what promises to be a most pleasant...
There is evidently some misconception at Yale as to the manner of conduct here; for the Record, writing relative to the recent action of '82 in regard to '85 admittance to the tree, says: "Yet, supposing it to hold in full force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them...
...hath skill in making verse, and is competently grounded in the Greeke language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically resolve ordinary Greeke - as the Greeke Testament, Isocrates and the Minor Poets, or such like, - haveing withall meet testimony of his towardness." Then follow rules of conduct, one (rule 6) being of the most comprehensive nature...
...noise and uproar in New Haven on the evening of the day on which the game took place to our freshmen. The last issue of the Courant, however, contained an editorial excusing them somewhat. This editorial is as follows : "We think the Lit's strictures in regard to the conduct of the Harvard freshmen, two weeks ago, a trifle uncalled for. If any, our own freshmen should be held responsible for what seemed, perhaps, cheeky on the part of our Harvard friends. It may have been poor taste on the part of the latter to act as they...