Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remonstrance against the institution of "Bloody Monday" has been growing stronger and stronger for several years, and the actions of some members of the University and the scenes witnessed on that occasion last year have convinced not a few that "Bloody Monday" is no longer an institution that should exist at Harvard...
...nine from one of our sister colleges should be more honored than that from the other. The distinction that has been made every year probably arose from some accidental circumstances, and from this has grown into a regular custom. If such circumstances - whatever they were - no longer exist, there is obviously no reason for honoring one nine and not the other...
...than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event of to-day's game prove that energy, not the best material, can win at base-ball...
...What is better still, they are true to a phase of humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength and delicacy, and with the entire absence of anything vicious or demoralizing, that characterizes the history of Margaret and Harold. Without sentimentality, one pities the pair, and looks on them leading their separate...
...increased attention which is now being paid to the study of the English language and literature in colleges and other institutions of learning both in this country and in England, there is still a notable lack of interest in the subject exhibited in quarters where it ought not to exist. The reasons for this have often been discussed, and do not again need to be rehearsed; that they are insufficient is now admitted in certain high quarters where the admission would have been impossible not so many years ago. For a long time even Harvard seemed disposed to cling...