Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with a welcome reception, having been much enlarged by additions from many authors before unrepresented as well as from those well known in connection with former editions. As many as three hundred lines have been added to the quotations from Shakespeare alone. On the other hand, no maxims of even the best writers have been added which seemed to the author to be unfamiliar to the general class of readers, although they might be of undoubted excellence. The index also, without which such a book would be like a library without a catalogue, has been enlarged and revised. Like...
...rules were the best; nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption of the Rugby game is a sufficient proof that we gladly recognize the superiority of other rules, even at the cost of giving up our own. We have played under these rules with good success, and we do not hesitate to recommend their adoption to the Foot-Ball Association...
...time; and until it is felt, Harvard will have to stay in the Convention and be beaten every year. As I said before, the majority of fellows here don't take any interest in athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns of our daily newspapers, - and you are one of that class, and a very popular man, if that comforts you. Good night...
...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...
...that we should soon see the results in the increased efficiency of our officers. They would no longer feel that they are left almost entirely to their own judgment, and that all sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want of confidence ought to bring into their places men who are better fitted to execute the opinions...