Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong rival. But in spite of lack of means, poorly paid professors, and the high cost of living here, Harvard still has the priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges, she has gathered about her name a mass of tradition and sentiment which will ever charm the imagination, and waken the enthusiasm of her students. Furthermore, Harvard has inherited from the past not only these blessings, but she has acquired that tone of broad culture...
...grown so savage of late years that the faculty voted, July 2, to prohibit the encounter to night, and the undergraduates decided to have a closing service. Accordingly before night one of the express wagons was seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major...
...proposed. The government supports military and naval academies in order to supply its army and navy with efficient men; and we see no reason why it should not provide some school to prepare men for the civil service. For in these time of peace, a capable administration of the common public business is of as much importance to the nation, as skilfull management of its armies and navies. Moreover, we think that a university which educates men for law or medicine is but widening its usefulness when it founds a school to drill men for public life. But though such...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - What fallacy so superficial is so generally received as the one most commonly advanced against a college education? It is urged that a young man's chances of success will not be enhanced by a course at college because a large majority of the "round table," and Cleveland, Bayard, Sherman, Carlisle and a host of other celebrities are "self-made men." Suppose that there are in the United States 10,000,000 men above the average age of a graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress...
...Conference Committee has appointed a sub-committee to draft a scheme of an elementary course in common law to be added to the college studies. This idea can hardly be too highly praised, and, if carried into practice, it will meet a want long felt by every college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their...