Word: affections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Reference has been made so far to those men who are candidates for the simple degree of A. B. Of course men who try for honors put in more time and work, but that is necessary here as well as there and would not affect the comparison of the values of the simple degrees...
...lecture on "Health and Strength" is to be delivered by Dr. Farnham this evening. The following is a synopsis of the lecture : Effects of syphilis on the digestive system. Effects of exercise on the digestive system. The heart and the circulation of the blood. The pulse. Various influences which affect the heart's action...
...ordinary college religious exercises that we do not attend; we have religious societies; we listen to good preaching. It is true that we have our little dissenters and deists, our little men of every stamp, but we have also men and students who are not little, who do not affect an unnatural unbelief. And they represent Harvard opinion. Any claim to the contrary is a misrepresentation of us and of the truth. If cheap publications must comment on us, let them do it with at least some knowledge of facts and less use of the perverted...
...Harvard smoke more, drink deeper, and live faster than the students of other colleges? Let us look at the matter a little closer for a moment. In a university so large as Harvard it will be possible to find students of every shade of private character. Some of us affect the Byronic and boast themselves "perfect Timons, not nineteen." Others betray the evil course of their life quite unconsciously. A few of us are cheats, and betray it in all that we do. But notwithstanding such exceptions, is it true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality...
...injustice of the prescribed system is contrasted with the waste of time through ill advised selections under the elective system. "Prescribed studies may be ill judged or ill adapted, ill timed, or ill taught, but none the less inexorably they fall on just and unjust. The wastes of choice affect the shiftless and the dull, - men who cannot be harmed much by being wasted. The wastes of prescription ravage the energetic, the clear-sighted, the original, the very classes which stand in the greatest need of protection...