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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...culture. There is the K. N., which supplies the lack which has so long been felt of an opportunity for developing the polemical and oratorical powers of the undergraduate. The Rifle Club, although it has not succeeded in arranging a match with any but the Cambridge team, has done noble service to the College papers in supplying them with frequent and remarkable scores. An historical society was the last thing discussed ; but the Faculty, recognizing the "social tendency" of these "mutual improvement societies," declined to provide a room for the meetings, and the project has fallen through. The lack...
...musical professorship and some five courses in music that are pretty well attended. Placards posted from time to time in the Yard, and brief accounts in the Advocate, inform us that a series of concerts is being given at the Sanders Theatre. The College herself has done her share; it is we who are to blame, and justly so, for Harvard's reputation as a college that takes little interest in music...
...wish to urge upon the members of the Senior Class the importance of immediately writing their "lives" for the Class-Book. If it is not done now, it will probably never be done at all; and the value of the book will be very much diminished if it does not contain the lives of all the members of the class. The Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been...
...ornamental ; or at least they could be finished so that pictures and statuary, should the future provide any, would not seem out of place in them. Other suggestions might perhaps be offered, but even if these few are attended to, we think a great deal of good will be done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that the art of building has attained and that experience can suggest. If our present recitation-rooms are poorly ventilated and lighted, have bare walls and hard benches, let us hope that...
...easy to understand that persons who are careful never to express disapprobation at foolish or vicious acts or speeches should imagine that it cannot be done in a gentlemanly way. They assume that it is necessary to "blurt out" abusive censure, forgetting that censure is often clearly expressed simply by silence. Their argument seems to be that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk...