Word: different
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advantages go which might arise from a general order for uniforms given to one manufacturer. We do not see as the results would differ from those possible under the present organization of our athletic associations. There would, as we have said, undoubtedly be some advantages in favor of the proposed scheme, but the manifest disadvantages would seem to clearly outweigh them...
...Wendell, the instructor, gave several warnings. First, don't be discouraged if you fail to see any beauty in authors who receive high praise. Tastes differ, and some of these authors may in themselves be unfitted for us. Another disturbing influence is that caused by critical students of the history of literature, (especially Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time...
...question candidates on their views about important questions seems to us decidedly ingenuous. Such ideas carried into the manipulations of any government, whether of a state or college, would be totally out of place. The case of the government of a college does not seem to us to differ essentially from that of state government. According to the ideas advanced by the writer to the Advertiser, and the Rev. Henry W. Foote, whose remarks that writer endorses, it would be highly improper to ask Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle their views on the important question of the tariff when...
...natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case of the recent vote, the number of votes was entirely too small to permit this influence to have much force...
Looking carefully over the two lists we find that 26 of our names were also on the Critic's, and that those where we differ compare favorably with the critic's men. Harvard is well represented, her graduates being many and occupying prominent places...