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...best that they should live. How should we know what the last thing in neck-wear was if that blank-faced young man, X -, did not consider it his duty to keep the run of the proper things to support his chin, and serve as a walking show-case to his less ambitious neighbors...
That the board of directors be requested to instruct the steward to keep the price of board as near $4.10 as possible. If the price should at any time exceed the maximum ($4.25) decided upon, the steward shall suffer such penalty as the directors may hereafter determine...
...following harrowing picture of the griefs of ye annex maiden : "The 'annex' has neither the burden nor the protection of rules. Indeed, its freedom is so great that it often becomes loneliness. It is true that, at her isolated boarding-place, the 'annex' student is at liberty to 'keep her light up' till daybreak, and to imprison herself indoors from one week's end to the other. Over and against these privileges, place the fact that her most intimate friend lives a mile or two away, and that, at the end of a year, she is acquainted with but four...
...been eager to disavow any such purpose. There are, perhaps, three wholesome influences at Harvard to prevent any growth of pedantry among her students: the universal attention given to athletics, the sharp and sincere intercourse of college society, and the watchful influence of college journalism, have all combined to keep a certain practical and real way of life and of thinking prevalent among all classes. In former days a similar result was brought about, as the editors of the first Harvard Register (1827) said in their introduction: "Many of us frequently lay aside the speculations of Plato, the oratory...
...active interest in the current events and discussions of American politics. An interest in the details of party management, in the workings of the spoils system, and in the glories of American stump oratory and buncomb is hardly to be expected of them. But that they do generally keep up with the current drift of discussions of political principles to as great an extent as almost any other class in the community is, we believe, the case. In our own case, this abundant interest in current politics and party principles is evinced by the great popularity of the study...