Word: existing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nearly two hundred years have passed since I was bell-ringer at this college, and many things have changed; but prayers, the evidence of my guilt, exist. I was almost a part of the college; I had taken my place when a boy and grown old in it. I loved the grounds, the building, most of all I loved my bell, and my greatest pleasure was in ringing it. Twice in the early morning, when the sun was rising, often through the day, and twice at evening, I delighted to send that pleasant sound out over the fields. When...
...poem entitled "Sub Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state of morals must exist there as low and as dangerous as the most ardent hater of liberal education could desire...
...surprised, when I opened the last Crimson, to come upon a piece entitled "Class Politics." The term is so inappropriate to any state of things that should exist at College, and so suggestive of a tone of feeling from which it is hoped Harvard has emancipated herself, that I was not unprepared for the disapproval I soon began to feel in reading the article. As I continued to read, however, disapproval deepened into indignation. The question of open elections no longer seemed an unsettled issue. That reform was not the modification of an institution for the sake of convenience...
...societies and accurate records of the athletic contests; deplores the lack of any good management in the book, and the omission of the alphabetical list of students which appeared last year; and points out a number of faults, especially the insertion in conspicuous places of societies which ceased to exist some time...
...possible only when competition is active. The vice, it is claimed, lies in this, that the issues are not raised on the vital points of ability and fitness, but on artificial considerations, as society standing or what not. It is to be observed, however, that so long as societies exist of such size as to divide the class into large sections, and which can be considered as rivals in the feeblest meaning of that term, so long, presumably, society feeling will color the elections. And so far as this is the generous competition of each society to produce the greatest...