Word: refraining
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...Marseillaise, and with other tunes of merry France, and awakened tender memories of "dear Parce," in the breast of many a sober "grind." Imprecations in spite of the memories came in showers from adjoining windows upon the singers' devoted heads. Many more discordant noises could be mentioned, but we refrain. So did the Italians, but in a different way. Now, in sober earnest, what are we going to do about it? There must exist some responsible authority which shall have control over all such nuisances. It is too late to do anything this spring about the matter. The faculty want...
...recitation room in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory shook with the cheers and applause of the freshmen who could not refrain their enthusiasm when they were shown the annual toy of electrified HARVARD...
...hoped that during the sparring at the next winter meeting the spectators will refrain from ejaculating the customary oh! whenever a well directed blow takes effect...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I think that every student can see the advisability of such a course as is now being urged in your columns, - namely, a course in Contemporaneous History; and I feel so strongly that an inestimable benefit would be derived from it that I cannot refrain from writing and offering a few suggestions...
...figure '89 is not that of a champion of eighty-nine's contests against the blue, but is simply that of - a freshman. We might even invade the sacred precincts of eighty-eight and comment upon the delicate design of some of the illegitimate devices there worn, but we refrain. We ardently hope that "The Harvard Furnishing Store" will, in the future, exercise a little more discretion in his sales...