Word: mannerizes
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...express to the nine the gratification which the college feels towards it for its efforts in bringing to Cambridge the pennant which has so long graced the grounds of our old-time rivals? First of all, let every man attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit" is not yet dead. But one word,- let not a sound escape at an opponent's error, but let there be applause...
...letter from Prof. James, published in another column, deserves the attention of every man in college. After exhorting the students to celebrate their athletic victories in a manner which shall merit the trust reposed in them, he goes on to give the theory of college government; that is, that government of students should be by students, that all matters of discipline should be decided by them just so soon they show fitness to be intrusted with such matters, We think that the time is now ripe for carrying out this theory at Harvard...
...students during the summer vacation. No instruction of the university, if judiciously used, could be pursued to greater advantage than such courses. There are many courses in the schedule of studies which of course no one student can pursue, however he may desire to elect them. The only manner in which he can gain a knowledge of such studies, is by outside reading. The establishment of courses of summer reading should be made general throughout the college. The effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students...
...writing composition, he should be kept steadily at it, and at the same time should be made to take an interest in what he is doing, and should be impressed with the importance of having something to say, and of saying that something in an intelligible and a natural manner...
...that the lacrosse team has brought one championship back to Cambridge it seems but fair to ask the college to testify its appreciation in some more substantial manner than by mere praise. The association has been put to heavy expense in arranging the tour just ended, while its receipts have been smaller this year than is customary, partly owing to the difficulty of obtaining a respectable number of paying spectators at the games played upon our unfenced grounds, and partly from the fact that the undergraduate purse has showed great reluctance to loose its strings when called upon to help...