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One of the few unpleasant features of the class days of the past has been the presence of undesirable persons in the yard. It has been the constant aim of all class-day committees to keep the yard as free from outsiders as possible and to have it especially reserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1883 | See Source »

Commencement punch is one of the sacred traditions of Cambridge, and it has been handed down along with the other good old customs, with all its mellow influences unimpaired. In the old days the punch used to be served in huge tubs on the college green, and classmates pledged each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT PUNCH. | 6/13/1883 | See Source »

"Well, Frescio, you have got that down pretty fine," remarked an upper-classman to a freshman as he was arranging the faint down of a new existence on his upper lip. - [Ex.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/13/1883 | See Source »

The questions involved in the use of "ponies" or litteral translations in the study of any language, are by no means easy to answer. With characteristic liberality, their use is often tolerated and even commended by many of the professors at Harvard. Indeed, when the object of a course is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/12/1883 | See Source »

The thanks of the college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/9/1883 | See Source »