Word: acting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be truly beneficial. Had it been desired to remove one of the restraints we labor under without any possibility of evil result being incurred, we presume to suppose that voluntary prayers would have been the alteration made. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected that prayer is the highest act of which the human mind is capable, and that we ought not to be deprived, or allowed to deprive ourselves, of prayer in the morning, we would like to submit that it is not we who pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member...
...outrage to college feelings, and probably the work of students themselves! Why are we called upon to deprecate the shameful act that was committed Wednesday night? We were in hopes that this spirit of irreverence had passed away, but the "leaven of unrighteousness" has shown itself in our midst, to bring shame and contempt on the students. It is but justice to say that these occurrences are rare; yet, when they do appear, they show a vandalism unworthy the lowest barbarians, and an existing undercurrent which it is our sad duty to notice. Have we not sufficient respect...
...some sort, public functionaries. In 1852, after the coup d'etat of December, they were required to swear allegiance to the Empire. Certain of them, either because they had already sworn allegiance to the Republic, or because their sense of justice and morality was shocked by an illegal act, refused to swear allegiance to a government sprung from a violation of law, and were removed from their positions without any regard to their past services, or consideration of their abilities...
...Botume gave a short history of the career of the class since its entrance, touching on its record in base-ball and boating, and alluding to the abolition of hazing as an act which the class would look back to with pride hereafter...
...such be oratory, - an art content with small beginnings, thriving on the hard lessons of blunders and mistakes, - the sooner in life these rudimentary lessons are given, the better for all concerned. Could Harvard act on this principle she might have a chance of escaping such criticism as the following on the Commencement speakers of a few years...