Word: amhersts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst at Amherst...
June 12. Amherst at Cambridge...
...because, as he says, the method used of exhorting us to remedy the matter seems to him unwise. We heartily agree with him that it would be very unwise to try to improve musical matters at Harvard by showing that it was "the thing" to sing at Yale or Amherst. Moreover, if he had taken the trouble to read carefully the article in the Crimson before attempting to criticise it, he would have found that no such method of exhortation was there attempted...
Having made this assumption, we then attempted to show in a few words that we had not much good music here, using Yale and Amherst, where music is generally acknowledged to be good, as standards of comparison, not as places setting a fashion that it might be well to adopt at Harvard...
...objection (which has been urged) that it was not proper to compare Harvard with Amherst and Yale, we can only say that, if we did not suffer by the comparison, such objections would not be entertained for a moment. Who hesitates to compare Harvard as a boating college with Yale...