Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...satisfactory basis. By informing the students beforehand just what the regulation is, and just how far they mean it to hold good, they have raised the standard of morality connected with the whole question of college obedience, and have taken the proper method to secure the co-operation of constant attendance with the work of the college. An ounce of prevention, it runs, is worth a pound of cure...
...building of the character proposed would stand in the University for the religious life of the students. It would be to the new student the symbol of the welcome which it is now so hard to express; and to all students it would be a constant reminder of the high aims of the societies which are now almost hidden from view, and even from thought, in their obscure rooms. Its purpose would be anything but a narrow one, for the three societies now represent practically all shades of religious belief, and any new religious society would find a place...
While the frequent publication of new songs is very helpful in keeping alive an active interest in music, and for that reason should be earnestly encouraged, it still runs the danger, slight perhaps, of bringing about a condition of overzealous progress, With the constant appearance of new songs, the old ones are apt to be set aside. In the interest over the novelty of the new comers the old songs which were beginning to take a firm hold on the memories of the college are sometimes forgotten. Conservatism in college music may seem a very insignificant matter...
...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
...usual a document of great interest. To all the well wishers of Harvard it affords much comfort and encouragement. It shows the affairs of the University to be in a very flourishing and prosperous condition. The progress which has always been characteristic of Harvard is maintained. The constant growth of the University has necessitated changes of administration which have proved highly successful The new Faculty of Arts and Sciences has already demonstrated the wisdom of those who originated it. All the various directions in which successful progress has taken place cannot be particularized here, but we heartily recommend to everyone...