Word: beds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young men. Some parents regard the very name of Harvard as possessing some magical power which will allow one under its influence to enter some charmed circle, as it were, where all is lovely and everything is in his power. Others think our college is the very hot-bed of extravagance and ruinous habits, and that it is impossible for anyone now-a days to pass four years within its classic walls without being misguided...
...caught the infection and sneered at that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter...
...hold their "kneipen." These consist of beer drinking, smoking, and singing; but the singing may better be called howling, and for those living opposite, the midnight hours are made more hideous than by cat-concerts. The greater part of the night is spent in this way, they getting to bed in the neighborhood of three of four o'clock in the morning. This is, of course, not a regular occurence, but happens about twice a week...
...means, let us broaden our minds by reading what others have written; but, do not bind us down to such a Procrustes' bed as this criticism is likely to prove...
...signs of "religious decadence" at Harvard, and I have never said that I did. Nor do I think that Harvard "is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe...