Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of Harvard are men, and although indifferent to such trifles as home and friends and turkey, are not indifferent to learning and wisdom and college law. It is silly to be ruled by passion, by impulse. Rather we should silence all the feelings that make us look away from Cambridge, and give ourselves wholly to the quest of learning, wholly to the control of reason. Love, home, turkey away! What has the Harvard man to do with you? He is a student, nothing less; he has no time to give to you. Thanksgiving pleasures are beneath him; Thanksgiving joys...
...fact that Cornell has established voluntary chapel attendance recalls to us the fate of our chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly...
...shows marked ability, they manifest a great interest in his choice of college. Then the tie of friendship, after three years of association, is very close, and when one sees a large number of his companions going to a New England college, the pressure which causes him to break away must be a very strong one. In order to counteract these influences, Princeton's New England Association was formed, the primary object of which is to advance the interests of the college throughout the New England academies by fairly presenting to these schools Princeton's claims, and by promoting...
...committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from this early history of California, a lesson of the dangers which threaten a Republican form of government. Every step an individual makes away from our social organism is a losing and ruinous...
...students for the use of their rooms for several days of the vacation. Fifty rooms are needed; and the committee requests all students who are willing to give up their rooms to send their names to Professor Sheldon, immediately. We hope that every man who intends to be away during the vacation will not hesitate to put his room at the disposal of the committee...