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...19th day of last October my umbrella left Memorial shortly before I did. As my name was profusely carved on the handle, I soon gave up the theory of temporary aberration, and concluded that umbrella slept with its fathers. Last Saturday that identical umbrella was delivered at my room express charges prepaid. With difficulty recovering from my astonishment, I sought for some explanation of this remarkable circumstance. There was only my name written on a piece of white paper, and the endorsement "Paid 50c.' At last I noticed a newspaper slip pasted inside the white paper. It was a piece...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I suppose that it is allowable for freshmen to write to the CRIMSON to express their views in regard to college matters. To be sure, we may not know fully the ways that things should be done, but still we can have our ideas. Yesterday we had our first regular examination, the one in German. It seems too bad that our first experience in examinations should be so unpleasant. It is likely to prejudice us against the present system. If they had only begun with something easy, so that we could gradually become hardened to the work...
...dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump up and express his doubts as to the truth of a certain assertion. A dispute then ensues between the two, in which by some mysterious dispensation of Providence, the candidate always comes out ahead. To one uninitiated into the great secret, the sudden interruption is startling, but when we learn that this whole scheme...
...improvement, we see at once from analogy that it would be perfectly natural for a set of cant phrases to come into use, and to occupy a unique position. And this is the origin of our slang. But as to its use. It is possible that our slang words express, it is true not in pure Saxon, a class of ideas not to be expressed in ordinary language. In other words we have slowly acquired a dialect, comparable to that of Romany, which is peculiar to Harvard and naturally adapted to express minor Harvard ideas. To attempt to eradicate this...
...convincing arguments. Of course a question of this nature will naturally provoke strong ideas for and against it. But no unbiased opinion can justly be formed without hearing a fair statement of all sides of the question. We trust that the students will avail themselves of this opportunity to express their ideas upon so important an issue...