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...courses that we take no interest in. The college man has more vacation than any other class, yet he idles away his time in doing fifty things besides his appointed tasks; a slight headache, a dry Professor; any thing to avoid a short hour in the recitation room. Men think they are wronged too if not allowed to go home before a vacation begins, if an examination strikes him hard, or if he is barred from a recitation on account of oversleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christian Association. | 3/24/1893 | See Source »

...head. Whether ladies are present or not the same things happen. If after Vesper services, for instance, a man in a crowd walks into the gallery with his head covered, the disgraceful uproar at once begins. The visitors do not realize the meaning of it; too often they think it is a personal insult and are forced in common decency to retire, doubtless with very uncomplimentary opinions of Harvard courtesy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1893 | See Source »

...from all active connection with the college, except as a member of the Board of Overseers. For this reason he was probably not personally known to many undergraduates at the time of his death; but in the days of his active life here he would have been grieved to think that he was not in very close touch with a majority of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 3/20/1893 | See Source »

...think the students would like these bats and balls and keep them as specimens of those used by the class of 1841 on the Delta where Memorial Hall now stands, I will gladly send them over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics Fifty Years Ago. | 3/14/1893 | See Source »

Many of the students seem to think that by signing the petition for a new dining hall they will give up their right to a place in Memorial Hall next year. This is not so, for the petition distinctly states, that the signer wishes to board at a place similar in price and management to Memorial, only in case he cannot obtain a seat in Memorial Hall. Thus by singing the petition no one will be obliged to leave the existing association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/14/1893 | See Source »