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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...illiteracy test and the capitation tax. The first would shut out the most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
...that the Corporation have nothing in mind but questions of present economy and convenience. We should therefore urge that some plan for the development of the present property be publicly adopted. Then if future bequests or the conditions on which money is given should render it expedient to depart from this plan, opportune rather than tardy criticism would be insured and greater forethought exercised...
...last week, is that "Harvard men keep more in touch with the plans of the day and be in a position to complain before the eleventh hour." It seems that the first would practically insure the second, for if some definite plan were recognized whenever it became necessary to depart from it in the slightest, special attention would be called...
There has been a tendency in the cheering for some time past to depart from the long, deep "rab" which, we believe, is the characteristic of the true Harvard cheer. In urging the maintenance of this style of cheer in a former year we called forth a protest from a graduate who wrote asking how long that had been the Harvard cheer. As to this we are uncertain. But there can be little question at the present time that in spite of the tendency mentioned above, the opinion of most Harvard men is in accordance with that which we have...
...know anything of are Betterton, Garrick and Kemble; but even though we have much to tell us how these actors looked and how they played their parts, we cannot get a very distinct impression of their impersonations. Actors are like the visions in Macbeth who "come like shadows, so depart." The best criticism n acting that has come down to us, is the one that Fielding gives us in "Tom Jones," when Partridge sees Garrick at the play...