Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...already have in three events which it is very important for us to win at New York next spring. Those events are chosen partly because in them we need better work, and partly because they admit of practice in the gymnasium as well as on the field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would be partly his fault if Harvard should fail to win the cup this year, and for that reason ought...
...regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November...
What then can be done to make physical exercises more attractive to the masses and to relieve our sports from some of the evils that degrade them? The best way to accomplish this is to remind the individuals of the ultimate aim of physical exercise. Do not the harmonious development of the physique and the building up of the highest type of manhood, offer an inducement to work...
Theme I. will be due on Oct. 11. It must be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 before 4 o'clock. Subjects : 1, A Significant Incident of my Life; 2. Why I came to College; 3, What I Hope to Accomplish in Life; or, in brief, any topic of a simply personal nature...