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...year as they have proved in the past. There is one suggestion, however, which we beg to offer the management. If the experience of former years is any criterion on which to base our opinions, there will be the usual crush at the entrance. The management ought not to forget this, but should open the doors earlier than is customary and let him be served best who comes first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1887 | See Source »

...great pity that at a pleasant reunion such as this, Captain Peters could not have laid aside his ancient and well-known grudge against Harvard; but it is a still greater pity that he should so far forget himself at a public dinner as to speak in such ungentlemanly and ungenerous terms of a defeated rival. There are, of course, two explanations: Either Captain Peters is no gentleman - which we are loath to suppose - or he was so under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/28/1887 | See Source »

...CRIMSON editor as he saw two menials of the college taking measurements for some new plank-walks which are to be laid on the approach to the library. Though this extravagant improvement will deprive the CRIMSON of one of its favorite editorial subjects, we feel that we must forget petty grievances in rejoicing about the public weal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

...months. It is a source of pleasure to us that Harvard is drawing more and more from the West each year, and that the claim formerly loudly advanced by Yale that she was the only cosmopolitan university, must so soon be abandoned as untenable. When westerners as a body forget their silly prejudices against Boston, we can hope that Harvard will become as popular among their young men as among those of the East who are now learning under her guidance, to be "earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1887 | See Source »

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