Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...undergraduates have been lately called upon, by an article of this kind, to purchase books for our "Wellesley sisters," whose place of instruction is to be, as the author darkly hints, the "pet institution of Harvard...
This volume on "Social Science," as it stands alone, is itself a monument to the honor and fame of two humorists, the author and the editor. For, certainly, no one can have read the editor's preface without the keenest appreciation of Kate McKean's trenchant wit and delicate sense of humor. Employing that same careless freedom with matters of history which Mr. Carey only anticipated her in doing, she shows a novel, if not refreshing, independence of educated opinion, and even of the ordinary processes of reason, in her estimate of the few great men who were so unfortunate...
...occasion to refer to them. We have also taken the liberty of slightly changing for the Index the title of contributions, where such titles failed to indicate the real subjects discussed, or where one subject was discussed under too great a variety of captions. In a few instances the author's name has been lost; and as in most such this is due to the negligence of the authors themselves, we would impress on all our contributors who desire to receive credit in the Index for their articles, the need of more care in signatures. The inconvenience hitherto arising from...
...state of things, would be conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation of the recent liberal reform, do demand consideration. An unsparing...
...assumption. It asserts that the class at large is incapable of settling on suitable men for Class-Day officers. Merit, it holds, secluded in the societies is unrecognized by the class. We breathe not a word against societies. Admission to them, though not the final criterion of character our author would have us believe, is undoubtedly an honor. We do object, however, to his remarks, "A non-society man, as a rule, either chooses or deserves his position." If it is meant as an argument against open elections, it is beside the point...