Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand by this, however, that the Methodists, Baptists, etc., in Gallatin are really heathens, because they are distinguished from the "Christians." We do not see clearly the distinction, but we cannot believe that heathens form a large proportion of the inhabitants of a place where the public taste is so elevated as to frown down any immoral or insubordinate action...
...think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness, I am quite sure that they cannot have done you any harm, and I think that it is possible that they may have done you a little good...
...school constitutes their chief occupation and interest. Questions relating to their common pursuit are constantly the subject of conversation and discussion among the members of the school, and the stimulating and invigorating effect of this constant social intercourse among a large body of educated and highly trained young men cannot be overestimated." Is this much in advance of "the salutation, the bow, the courtesy," etc., of Neophogen? These improprieties in our Catalogue - embracing the commonplace, the bombastic, and some passages of a catch-penny character - must have come down to us from the time when Harvard was that much-talked...
...Freshman class. It is a subject which does not need great consideration. The money was subscribed to support our interests in a contest with Yale, and the natural disposition of it would be to place it in the hands of the treasurer of the H. U. B. C. We cannot imagine any objections to this course. It is well known that the support of the University crew will be no light matter this year, saddled as they are with debt. The money from the Freshmen will be a great help towards placing the club on a sound financial basis. From...
...only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors in Cambridge find pupils almost solely in the Freshman class, and very rarely in any subject but Mathematics. It is evident that no study should be required in College which a large number cannot master without other instruction than is afforded by the College. Again, the prices which tutors ask are so high that none but the more wealthy students can afford to patronize them. There are such urgent reasons that the advice of the Visiting Committee be acted upon by the Faculty, that...