Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many worthy people, who have the interest of Harvard at heart, that the system of voluntary recitations pursued here is one which has brought about a great lack of interest in recitations. There is really a widespread opinion that this indifference manifested is worthy of some sort of action. Yet how different are the facts. Thursday, a few minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead run in the direction of Harvard street...
...members of his own class. In very truth, if the admission of foreign commodities on an equal footing with home products is the only way to reserve a healthy state of our commercial markets, how will this restrictive high protection act upon the intellectual wealth of those under its action? Shall we find each individual offering to his fellow classmen, products equal to those found in the unlimited markets of the outside world of literature? It is barely possible...
...instructors in history for the use of a section numbering over two hundred men, and as it will be impossible to obtain a duplicate copy for several weeks at least, we may imagine what inconvenience will be suffered by two hundred men on account of the ungentlemanly action of one man. Such carelessness, if we speak charitably, or selfishness, if we give the right name, ought to meet with open reproof and penalty, and we regret that the offenders, who have on several occasions purloined books from the library, have not had their offence made known to the public...
...dreaming but of work, of work not for the selfish and narrow advancement of self, but for the nobler, grander love of helping those who, through ignorance or poverty, are unable to help themselves. It is a thought worthy of consideration, worthy of more than consideration of action...
...making themselves informed on the current topics of the day, and of making themselves able intelligently to discuss those topics, is for the most part left with the students; and as a rule they have cheerfully as well as very successfully, taken up this responsibility. The fact that the action has been their own, and not prompted by mandates or regulations of the college authorities, has added to the interest, and consequently to the successes of their efforts. These efforts are seen in the establishment of debating societies; for example, here, at Harvard, in the establishment of the Union. Arguments...