Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other desired courses; but an excellent beginning has been made, and criticism at this stage would be unjust. For the present, many of the courses will be taken by undergraduates chiefly, for hardly enough graduates remain here fully to support the department. How this will be in the future cannot now be foretold; but certainly the organization of this department is a sign of the approaching time when required work can be done away with, and Harvard become more like a German university...
...their want of prudence boldly, and consent to row at Saratoga. Of course individuals are to blame for causing a hasty and ill-considered challenge to be sent, but the whole class is responsible for the result. Whatever means they may take to punish their evil counsellors, they cannot honorably escape the consequences of following bad advice...
...plan, prove satisfactory, the contractors will begin at once. If, on the other hand, it is found necessary to make decided changes in the design, work will be delayed several weeks. While we are desirous naturally to see the building begun, and while we are disappointed by delays, we cannot help expressing our appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's generosity, and of the care and trouble he has taken in his efforts to secure for the College a good gymnasium...
...course for two consecutive years. If, as has been affirmed, Harvard men generally lack the power of easy, off-hand speaking, ought not an elective, intended to remedy this defect, to be open to other classes besides Seniors? Or if this elective is too advanced for the under classes, cannot something elementary be given...
...cannot resist giving two quotations from a poem in the Tufts Collegian, entitled "The Wreck...