Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the officers of the four boat-clubs and the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., held on Monday evening, resolutions were passed which cannot fail to be of interest to all who are concerned with boating at Harvard, whether they are in favor of class or club races...
ALTHOUGH it is very gratifying to have our virtues commended and our faults forgotten, we cannot expect to derive any real benefit from this kind of criticism. An unbiassed comparison, whether between individuals or institutions, is the only one conducive to marked improvement...
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...seems to be highly fashionable at present to criticise the management of our excellent Library. Why this should be so just when such great changes and improvements are making, whereas no one used to complain of the time honored inconveniences under the last regime, we cannot imagine: we hope it is because there is greater interest in the question; but even this reason cannot excuse such a superfluity of ingenious fault-finding. Doubtless its defects have been more evident this year to the mass of students, because they have used it so much more; but anybody who knows other libraries...
Many of us are familiar with attempts in private conversation to justify reluctance to express disapprobation at indecencies however great, but such attempts in print are rare. That there should be at college a live and healthy public opinion cannot be doubted, at least until those who defend non-expression of disapproval show good reasons for so doing...