Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduate for supposed violation of the rules of the college is not so rare an occurrence as to excite extended discussion beyond the sphere of the victim's intimate friends; but there may be circumstances which make such an event of more general interest. Such circumstances seem to exist in the case which has just occurred, and justice to a popular and worthy man, as well as to truth, demands that the facts should be known. Mr. Sartelle, being in my room, casually read my theme, and some time afterwards wrote his, on the same subject. By a freak...
...found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other students. Although there is need of some reform in regard to the performance of their duties, yet, on the whole, the institution deserves to exist, if for no other reason, merely because it spends the money of the university in a meritorious...
...Cornell students view with alarm a tendency alleged to exist at that college to fill all the professorships "with graduates of one of the leading colleges." "Furthermore," says the Sun, "we have not been indifferent while the peculiar institutions of that college have been initiated, or rather transplanted here, until Cornell almost begins to appear as a second annex." What a terrible thing an "annex" must...
...have never believed that the students of Harvard have yet fully understood the great art of creating and filling offices of honor and importance. It is true that many societies and other organizations exist at Harvard, and that each one of these necessitates a considerable list of officers and committees - sometimes, I have been told by the envious, a very respectable proportion of the membership list, a portion sufficient in the steady march of time to satisfy the aspirations of all concerned. But, nevertheless, in spite of all these assertions, I now have to believe that Harvard men are mere...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As it is highly desirable and beneficial that the friendliest of relations should continually exist between instructor and student, anything which can possibly tend to disturb such relations should be promptly discouraged. The affair of last Friday morning in the geology section may perhaps be regarded as the culmination of an ill-feeling which has been constantly increasing since the beginning of the term. Although it is certainly not desirable to have loose management in conducting recitations, yet the youthful rules and practices of grammar schools seem to be sadly out of place in our college recitation...