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...more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...decision of the Board that Memorial shall be kept open during the recess, and that those who are absent from Cambridge shall be charged half price, is, perhaps, on the face of it, somewhat unfair; but the same notice that gave the above information threw some crumbs of comfort to the members by assuring them that the decision had only been arrived at after a full discussion of many plans. One of these, it seems, was to close the Hall entirely, a course which experience has proved would result in a debt of $1,000 that would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

COLUMBIA'S challenge to the Boat Club has been declined. The advisability of accepting this challenge has always been an open question; and now, when the reasons are known which caused Harvard to decline it (the conditions which Columbia felt that the acceptance of her challenge for last year had given her strength to insist upon), the action of the Executive Committee in settling the matter as they have will, we think, meet general approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLUMBIA MATTER. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...Steward of Memorial Hall wishes all those who intend to remain in Cambridge during the vacation to give him notice. The hall cannot be kept open unless at least one hundred and fifty students board there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...fellowships, open to recent graduates who may wish to pursue the study of mental and moral philosophy, have been established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »