Word: done
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scribner's for March there appeared a severe criticism on Mr. Lowell's "Among My Books," in which the writer, referring to Professor Masson, says: "He has also done a noble work in his Professorship at Edinburgh, where he has accomplished what the united Faculty of Harvard College have thus far failed in doing, for he has created among his own students an ardent love for the study of Belles-Lettres." Has our Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters...
Besides these professional grumblers, all Freshmen may be considered as amateurs in the same line; but the fault-finding done by the latter, who understand little or nothing of the college institutions, is too absurd to deserve notice, especially as impartial judges will admit that of all God's creatures Freshmen are the most unreasonable...
...give, as if such a course would, together with the entrance examinations, raise the standard of scholarship in the Law School. Many men on graduation enter the Law School, forming a fair proportion of the class there. If this course could answer as a preparation for the work done in the Law School, it would be very generally taken by those expecting to enter the School, and even tend to raise scholarship in the School itself...
...climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would set the fashion of attending the meetings which the "President has done all in his power to make attractive." If the President's attractive powers are fairly represented by his work on Metaphysics, it is hardly probable that this wish will be realized...
...Gymnastic Tournament to take place at the Gymnasium next week is an innovation of the Athletic Association we heartily approve. While it has been the custom in various other colleges to have regular winter athletic contests, Harvard has not, at least for the past few years, done anything to keep up the spirits and zeal of the men who work conscientiously during the long months of the close season, as it might appropriately be called. To spectators, also, this tournament will be interesting, and probably very amusing. Any break in the winter's dulness is certain to be acceptable...