Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence of the university be better extended, or respect and enthusiasm for Harvard be more effectually spread abroad than this banding together of old alumni all over our great country. To whom the happy idea of instituting these clubs belongs we do not know, but now that they do exist, nothing seems more natural than that these old Harvard boys, with the same memories and associations should come together. And yet, if we are not mistaken, Harvard is the only university in the world which has such a system of perpetual clubs...
These are the only causes which Princeton has for complaint, and, as they both arose from misconceptions, we can, without loss of dignity, express our deep regret that they exist: but, that Princeton's president should dislike the liberal sermon of Phillips Brooks, the liberal oration of James Russell Lowell, and the liberal tone which characterized the whole celebration here, we can regret - only on his account...
...tracing his professional lineage back to Thomas Shepard? There too was Nathaniel Ward, who framed for the young Colony its "Body of Liberties," and who held up to their gaze some of their foibles in his "Simple Cobbler of Agawam?" What a void in the history of toleration would exist if Roger Williams with his doctrine of Soul-liberty, as he called it, had not passed, for the good of both, I suspect, from the bay of the Massachusetts to that of the Narragansetts? These were but few of the spirits who were transplanted from the banks...
There seems to exist in the minds of some men an idea that there is a college law compelling the professors to stop lecturing, whether they be in the middle of a sentence or not, directly the hour bell rings. At any rate these persons prepare to leave instanter by shuffling their feet, closing their note books with a clap and moving about. Their uneasiness becomes violent if the professor dares to finish the sentence or attempts to make a finishing remark. We would assure these gentlemen that no such law exists...
...concert of last Friday revived old memories and feelings, and with them the memory of a plan, not new, but one which may be made new by its extension to a yet wider scale than was at first intended. We speak of class Glee Clubs. That such clubs could exist has been shown by the freshman Glee Clubs of the last two years. The University Glee Club draws but five men on an average from each class; surely, there would be enough vocal material left in the class to form a tolerable class Glee Club. A moderately good one, moreover...