Word: file
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...greatest farce which remains in connection with the admission to Harvard College is the rule obliging candidate to file a certificate of moral character. This certificate amounts to nothing at all. Anyone can get such a paper, and the college is no more sure of the character of a man than if the certificate had never been presented. It is a piece of red tape at which every one smiles and which, if its doubtful moral effect and uselessness be considered, it would be far better to do away with...
...held its opening reception Friday evening and formally declared its new rooms open for business. This club is in part a social and in part a literary organization, providing its members with a pleasantly furnished parlor and reading rooms, where about thirty of the leading periodicals are kept on file; and holding monthly sociables where other attractions than literary are introduced. The plan of drawing all the men together into a common body, and of maintaining a general parlor or club room is one that should succeed in all the dormitories...