Word: affections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish in our communication column a letter from a gentleman who objects to receiving postal cards informing him that, "so and so '8 -, will run over the course in French XVII, and will comment on each play read; price, $1.00." We see no reason why this should affect the gentleman's delicate sensibilities any more than an advertisement in the CRIMSON to that effect, or a poster on the bulletin boards, or a folder in his morning paper. There can be no discrimination as to what goes through the mail; if there were, who would not exercise his rights...
...Williams Fortnight very justly and creditably takes exception to the disparaging remarks made by Mr. Howells in Harper's Monthly on "amateur rhymsters." Mr. Howell's remarks probably affect men in college more than others, for most "amateur rhymsters" are usually college men also. The work of amateurs in the poetic art he would discourage by means of "most brutal" criticism. Why amateur verse should receive brutality any more than the most professional verse that has ever been written, we find it hard to see. On the contrary, we think that young poets should have encouragement, not discouragement. If poetry...
...inspire, would be preserved, instead of being, as at present, foolishly and blindly wasted. The very manliness of a nobler ideal would ripen into nobler lives. The memories of such a service would linger in every mind and heart. The finer and subtler influences emanating from it would profoundly affect every life...
...race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States," and send their boys when they can afford it, to the great English universities. I think if the number of Canadians on the rolls at Cambridge and Oxford were noted, they would be found to equal fully the number of Californians in Harvard. Time...
...investments, in order to lower the rates for tuition. It is well known that now at the end of every year Harvard either has almost no surplus, or is in debt. To lower the charges for tuition, from which the income is at least $150,000, would seriously affect our financial prosperity. Yet it seems as if, in addition to the aid given by scholarships and loans, the tuition in some cases might be made free to those who are in great need of money. Such a policy is pursued in many other colleges, and in some of the fitting...