Word: existence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular correspondents of the best Boston papers do their work in the CRIMSON office; some are members of the CRIMSON board; and we can answer for it that they use their best efforts to act only in a loyal spirit. It is not denied that the evil condemned does exist, and no one deprecates it more sincerely than does the CRIMSON and many of the correspondents themselves. But to read the condemnation of this writer one would imagine that the entire staff of correspondents was disloyal to Harvard. In this way the article is too sweeping and does not discriminate...
...often crowded, and every blank wall available is in demand for handball. That so good a game as fives should be ignored is a matter not only of regret, but of surprise. A careful enquiry has convinced me that not one man in three knows that the courts exist; and even those who do know it have never expressed their desire to use them...
...vote of the Advisory Board on Debating, which reduces Faculty coaching of the intercollegiate debating teams to a minimum, brings out a marked in equality in the conditions which exist at Harvard and Yale in the preparation of a team for joint debate...
...large as Harvard who will be dishonorable enough to cheat or hand in work not their own. But these offences against truthfulness and honor are not confined to a few, and the undergraduate sentiment concerning them is not sufficiently condemnatory. Why this vital defect in the college morals should exist is hard to decide; but we believe the men who represent another's work as their own, fall into the evil through carelessness and thoughtlessness of its dishonorable character, if a man can commit an act of deliberate dishonesty through thoughtlessness...
...editorial in yesterday morning's CRIMSON that if class dinners were held annually, from the entrance of a class into college until its graduation, instead of once in the Junior year, as now, they might help to do away with the unnatural and unnecessary divisions and disunion which exist in our social life. The Junior dinners have always been very successful in uniting the various separated groups and individuals in the class in an informal meeting, which has done a great deal to make the members of the class acquainted with each other, to acquaint the class with itself...