Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time attack has been renewed again upon scientific study. This time it is in the shape of an editorial in the Congregationalist against the evil influence of the institute of Technology. The Congregationalist says...
...Yale News says that now that the 250th anniversary celebration is over, the Harvard CRIMSON will renew its attack upon the freshman eleven. The News is mistaken. We will do nothing of the sort. The playing of the freshmen during the last week has been such as to breathe new courage into any one who might have believed that they were past redemption. In fact the whole eleven seem to have imbibed the fervor and enthusiasm of the recent festivities, and to have settled down to work with all the determination of a typical Yale eleven. In truth, we have...
...conception of the real meaning of college work. There is not a man who has not been lifted up above the drudgery of every-day work and been shown the true great meaning of the whole in its relation with the outside world. We all feel an inspiration to attack the work with new vigor, when we know that such men as were on the stage in Sanders on Monday have all been in our places and sympathize with us. If Lowell and Holmes, and Bancroft, have been through our experiences, have lived in the very rooms of some...
...ready to attack again an abuse which forms at this period of the year one of our regular subjects for disquisition - playing musical instruments out of hours. But as time seems to increase the annoyance, time also has added fuel to our wrath. The dulcet strains of the oboe and the nerveless screech of the violin have become simply maddening when they interrupt the culminating work of the year. The walls seem only to increase and re-echo the noise. We absolutely demand in behalf of suffering humanity, that the abuse be stopped...
...moral courage has been attacked. If the attack is justifiable, it seems strange that the faculty should have made a unanimous bona-fide declaration of trust in us. As to our complaint of officiousness, this is a free country If anybody without due authority from the United States, the state, the city, the faculty, or the students, assumes the right to control us, I think that to most people he would seem officious. And now I will try to answer the last charge against us, - that we are afraid of responsibility...