Word: expression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 was given none but advisory powers, but its suggestions were influential in the conference and the questions were settled...
...show visitors our fine buildings, large libraries, and valuable museums, but they do not fully express the ends for which they were founded, as long as this "Harvard Indifference" is so prevalent...
...natural he must be broader than nature. One always listens to the elocution of Edwin Booth with the greatest pleasure. In pronunciation an actor should not follow the dictionary, but the emotions. Pronunciation is to the actor what color is to the artist. Words are intended to express ideas, but not to bind them in fetters. The force of an actor depends upon his physique; therefore the body should be cultivated. Your gymnasium is worth volumes on this subject; (applause from the gallery) but sometimes the body is cultivated at the expense of the mind." (Applause from the orchestra...
...very fitting that a society of college students, working for ability to express themselves before an audience, should invite their college president, who has won an extended reputation as a public speaker, to address them. But, if such an invitation was appropriate, it was still more appropriate, we think, for President Eliot, interested as he is in the growth of college institutions that are practical, to comply with this invitation, and thus encourage a society that is doing more toward fitting the students of Harvard to take positions of influence after graduation, than many of the courses in the elective...
...Harvard students who have been here year after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...