Word: stranger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article headed "College Diet, a table boarder's notes on Memorial Hall," appeared in last evening's Record. One is forcibly reminded, while reading some portions, that fiction is often stranger than truth...
...past. Still, although the students have shown a more courteous spirit, nevertheless the discourtesy of wearing a hat in the hall is just as great as it ever was, and of course the discourtesy is greater if the offender be a student than if he be a stranger. It is with great surprise, then, that we learn that some of the students, boarding at the hall, actually wear their hats until they come to their tables, which sometimes are half way down the hall. This is, to say the least, discourteous. Further, it shows an unwillingness to make practice...
...pages and scent the mass of dry facts laid before us, we are disposed to ask with Arthur in the play, "cui Bono? It is not that the Index is not useful and even indispensable as far as it goes, but that it does not go far enough. A stranger who had been looking over the publication of a like nature which other colleges have, and marked their wealth of illustration and the variety of their pages, would doubtless expect to fine that the greatest University of the country had gotten up something very choice and desirable; but how rudely...
From all that has been said and written about Harvard indifference, a stranger would imagine that the average Harvard man is modelled after the old Stoics. The most exciting event in the outside social and political life receives from him a few laconic comments, and then he relapses again into his former state of let come what will, God rules and Harvard still lives, so I am content. But there have been many exceptions to this general rule. At times of great political excitement, the Harvard Union debates on the leading subjects of the day, have been able to attract...
...other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages")-the spectacle might also have a ludicrous side. He might...