Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...written an article in a recent Advocate on the subject of room-rents has now reappeared in an offensive and personal attack on my answer to his complaints. As he has falsified my expressions, and purposely misconstrued my whole article, I think it proper to call attention to the fact in self-defence...
...sweeping statement that the Faculty are not proper subjects for satire, it forgets that a very short search through its back numbers would show that this opinion is either something new, or that it has many times been disregarded in the paper that expresses it. In point of fact a large part of the humor of every college publication is at the expense of the instructors. It is natural, too, that this should be the case. The members of the Faculty are the public men of what the Lampoon calls our "little world," and the faces of public...
...will be remembered that it was only after some hesitation that the Faculty decided to give voluntary attendance upon recitations another year's trial with the present Senior class. It was hoped that the class would appreciate the fact that the system is as yet an experiment, and would do nothing to embarrass its final adoption. These anticipations, we are informed by the Dean, have not been realized. As far as can be judged by the returns up to the present time, the system has this year been used with much more license than it was last year...
THIS week, the Era mourns. The "unsuspecting Westerner" no longer listens to the dulcet tones of Cornell, "one of the most popular colleges in the country, in the opinion of Westerners." The reasons are the Cincinnati Examinations, and the fact that "every State has a dozen monohippic colleges at least, which he feels in duty bound to attend, partly out of patriotic motives, and partly on account of the great risk and expense incurred in coming east." Think of the patriotic westerner debating with himself as to which one of the four hundred and fifty-six "monohippic" colleges he shall...
...press, on the very eve of the first tournament, few entries have been made at all, and two only for sparring; there seems to be a general lack of interest this year, which is most aggravating, and very hard to account for, unless it be in the undeniable fact that at Harvard we are all fond enough of starting some new thing, but are loath to give any personal effort to help in keeping it alive...