Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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People outside of our sacred precincts form judgments about our college and her work in the same way as the seven blind men received their impressions of that object of interest to them, the elephant...
...great university. But one may fairly ask what goes to make up manhood? If withdrawal from temptations, association with none but the strictly virtuous, blissful ignorance of vice make a man, then Harvard indeed does not graduate men. There is vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does not see it. Granted that there are greater temptations, and more immoral influences here than at any other college, does it follow that the graduates of the university are any the less men, because they have come into contact with wickedness? Who is the manlier, he who has never...
...because we sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While we acknowledge all that is true, we protest against the sneer conveyed in the term "Harvard Morality...
...California, said Prof. Royce, was essentially an American community in all stages of her development. The "new comers of 1849" imbued a spirit of youthful energy into the old camps. Bayard Taylor tells of their industry, mirthfulness, hospitality and public spirit. He found that the first election resembled a "blind pool" of the present day, everyone voting on men and questions of which they know nothing. Among the laws and customs the idea of non-interference in private quarrels was very general...
...petition will wear off with his increasing years. It is high time that some reply, however inadequate, should be offered to the contemptuous sneers and jealous animadversions of which Harvard has been made the object. If a student of Harvard University, in the face of what he must, unless blind, witness every day, in defiance of the fact that in so doing he stigmatizes not only himself, but his fellow-students and the faculty, maintains the truth of the quoted statement, he must do so not from a spirit of justice, not from a love for right and truth...