Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were enjoyed by their sons at the foremost institution of learning on the continent, was at last realized. An attempt has been made to induce the Corporation of Harvard University to allow the entrance of young ladies on the same terms with young men; but the conservative body of august men was suffering from an attack of that disease, peculiar to such bodies, known as impecunia. They refused to have anything to do with the new enterprise until its success was established beyond a doubt...
...limited to these, but a certain number of blackballs will exclude a candidate. There have been several black-balled before those colored men applied. The "ostensible reason" was caught up and flourished by newspaper men, but the Harvard DAILY CRIMSON should have asked for greater evidence before condemning this "august assemblage which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men." The said assembly counts among its members, fourteen members of Congress, two Cabinet Officers, three or more Judges, and such men as George Bancroft, Henry Adams, Commissioner Loring, and others...
...writer, having established his point, goes on with pardonable pride and recounts at great length the eminent men connected with the august assembly to which he himself belongs. This will undoubtedly be very interesting reading for our subscribers, but we confess that we fail to see exactly what bearing this list of notables has upon the subject under discussion. We do not think the facts affect the position of the CRIMSON. We attempted to show that to exclude Negroes, simply because they were Negroes, was manifestly unfair, and could not react with good effect upon Harvard, and this point...
...Washington Harvard Club in refusing to allow certain members of the alumni to join the club, the only ostensible reason for their refusal being the fact that the candidates in question were colored. In other respects they were admitted to be of sufficient merit to be enrolled among the august assembly which thus sets itself up to judge its fellow men. One of the rejected candidates was the gentleman graduated last June, who read a commencement part on the history of his race since...
...boat-races into one grand combination of Harvard-Yale-Columbia. In the issue to which we refer, we further suggested that the representative papers of the respective Colleges ventilate their opinions upon the advisability of such a measure. The number, however, in which this editorial appeared was published in August, and in all probability our Harvard and Yale exchanges failed to observe it. We therefore are desirous of presenting the case again, with the conviction that our esteemed contemporaries will bestow upon it their mature deliberation. The advantages of this consolidation are obvious, though, for the benefit of those...