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To anyone who has had the slightest acquaintance with philosophy as expressed in the writings of its disciples, the idea of philosophy, forced upon an uncongenial mind, is as crude as its ludicrous. Yet no one in this age of mechanical method and mass manner can call himself a true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORCED PHILOSOPHY | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

According to a three column article in a recent edition of a Boston newspaper, a group of prominent graduates have expressed the desire to have a combined clock and bell tower erected in the Yard as a war memorial. This plan will at once commend itself to the undergraduate intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN APPEAL TO REASON | 1/25/1922 | See Source »

Speaking, however, from first-hand observation, we have so far failed to observe him wandering hatless and abstracted about the Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAUREL OF RESPECTABILITY | 1/6/1922 | See Source »

The novel equity suit instituted by certain members of the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania against the senior class to secure the restoration to the Philomathean Society of the bowl fought for in the drawn bowl fight of 1878, at the conclusion of which the bowl was presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOVEL SUIT. | 6/21/1882 | See Source »

The Professor paused a moment, pulling a leaf to pieces in a nervous and abstracted way; while I restrained my curiosity as best I might, and waited for the sequel.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DREAM AND A REALITY. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

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