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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sighs suppress; amend thy dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...pill for an English crew, composed possibly of English blue blood, to be defeated by a crew of horny-fisted American carpenters, every one must see; still, as the English sporting motto is supposed to be "Let the best man win," it would seem that our transatlantic cousins might suppress their aristocratic pride in the interest of "fair play," of which we hear so much, but see so little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...told us the story of the last rush between Sophomores and Freshmen, we thought we should never hear anything more about hazing at Harvard. It is true that Princeton undergraduates still indulge in this old-time custom, and that the Faculty at Yale think it best to suppress the publication of the residences of Freshmen in view of the periodical cruelty of the Sophomoric soul; but hazing at Harvard we expected to see only in the pictures of "Student Life," or in the columns of the Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESPECTABILITY vs. ROWDYISM. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...save ourselves the trouble of classifying it; for it is an exceedingly nasty creature, and was known to our old-fogy ancestors under the name of gratuitous invective. However, such argument has the merit of being easily confuted. As the premises and the conclusions are identical, we suppress both by denying, with varying degrees of earnestness, all the former, - speaking comparatively, of course, with reference to any other secular college; for we should hesitate to predicate anything concerning the relation of our general morality with the high ideal standard of the writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVOLUTIONIST AGAIN. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...more sure method than the extreme course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable to entirely suppress the military portion of the College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried to an alarming extent. We seldom or never make much preparation for war until war is upon us, and then we find that not only are our military supplies deficient, but that nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOWDOIN MUTINY. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

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