Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handed about to the students just as they enter Memorial Hall. The average student, having satisfied his curiosity as to what the poster in question contains, calmly drops it on the ground wherever be happens to be; and in consequence the scattering of such papers in direction leaves the neighborhood in a very untidy condition. Such nuisances as circular distributors are not allowed to come into the yard, we believe. Why should they not likewise be kept from the vicinity of Memorial, where the scattering of myriad bits of paper in and outside of the transept produces an effect...
...have been requested, now that the examinations have begun, to comment upon a fact, which, though not very new, is certainly very true,-the fact that it is almost impossible to study when "musical instruments" are being made use of in their neighborhood. We have spoken so often of this musical nuisance that it is with some hesitation that we again broach the subject, and yet, despite all that can be said, there are always a few men thoughtless enough to disturb those at work. Of all times in the year, the annuals is the one which ought...
...Huntington's lecture for Monday evening will be "Switzerland in the neighborhood of Monta Rosa...
...this resolution the standard which Harvard is to maintain in the future will be decidedly lowered. By force of circumstances we happen to be isolated from all the other colleges where athletic games are indulged in. For this reason we are dependent upon the various athletic organizations in the neighborhood for that practice, without which we cannot compete with other colleges on equal terms...
...members of many of these organizations are largely graduates of Harvard, and are all to be classed under the head of gentlemen amateurs. As for the question of the expense incurred in competing with these organizations, it is only necessary to say that they are all within the immediate neighborhood of Boston. What reason in the world can have actuated our faculty in passing such a ridiculous resolution, it is hard to discover. But stay! a faint rumor reaches our ears that this resolution was passed to satisfy Princeton, who had no similar organizations to practice with. This then...