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...LITANY service is held by the St. Paul's Society at 6.45 P. M., daily through Lent, except on Saturdays and Sundays. A lecture may be expected every Monday evening...
...first place, a few words of a statistical nature. The Thayer Club was founded in 1865 in accordance with the terms of a gift of money from Nathaniel Thayer, Esq. The object held in view by that liberal gentleman was to afford to poor students the means of obtaining good, substantial board at cost price. The club was organized under the form of an independent body, but this independence is now merely nominal, as the Faculty have an absolute veto on any vote passed by the association. The number of students connected with the Club has gradually increased, until...
...appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects a thief at one place, charges him with all the thefts that have occurred the same night. To be suspended with many men means to lose their good reputation, to regain which a long...
Without any questions from me he began telling story after story, holding me spell-bound, as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding-guest "with his glittering eye." In fact, this eye is all I can distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed...
...warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told of the meeting held by Adams, Otis, Hancock, and others in little Holden just before the Revolution, or how, a few months later, the College was removed to Concord, and Continental soldiers slung their hammocks in old Massachusetts...