Word: exists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long time the need of such a magazine has been evident. While each of the present college papers is excellent in its own field, that field is necessarily a circumscribed and limited one. With all the merits of the Lampoon, the Advocate and the CRIMSON, none of these exist solely with the aim of putting in attractive and permanent form the best literary work of the college, nor of representing within its pages the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought. It is evident, also, that the efforts put forth of late by the instructors in English, coupled with a growing sense...
...from them have arisen the complaints which have brought into such prominence of late years, the "Labor Question." Foreign immigrants with their pernicious ideas of state help and socialism have helped to widen the breach between laborers and capitalists, and as long as these weak protected industries exist, we can have nothing to expect but dissatisfaction and even threats of violence on the part of the laborers who do not know the real cause of the uncertain returns in the industries in which they are employed. A very dangerous element is introduced into our politics at every canvass...
...Advisory Conference Committee was organized at Williams in March 1884, and was only temporary, it being expected that as soon as the trouble arising from cane-rushing was settled, the committee would cease to exist. The original committee consisted of three men from each class, and three or four from the faculty, including the president, and the students on the committee were expected to be perfectly free to express their opinions in all discussions. The faculty hoping to thus obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee...
...only these sports, but track athletics, tennis, lacrosse and polo, show the influence of the mind in elevation of sports to a higher lev And we may confidently expect to we improvements continue in them unceasingly, until colleges and athleacsno longer exist...
...thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom personal independence of thought is of primary importance. In no field does college education tell more than in the field of business...