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...temperature many degrees too warm, and, combined with the lack of fresh air has made the place exceedingly uncomfortable. To a person coming in from the open air the stuffy atmosphere is almost unbearable. The bad air undoubtedly dulls the senses, produces drowsiness and renders it very difficult to fasten the attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1890 | See Source »

...CRIMSON which is to blame, that those seeds were allowed to flourish unheeded. It is all the more unfortunate that to-day the element of fair dealing and manliness in Cambridge is compelled to fight its battle with this evil which now has had a year wherein to fasten its grip upon that fair reputation for which in time past Harvard was known and respected everywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1887 | See Source »

Sophomore theme II will be due Oct. 29. The subject is a criticism of the work summarized in the first theme. The instructors have particularly requested students not to fasten their sheets together with pins, or by any other mechanical contrivance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/20/1885 | See Source »

...junior modern's faith in no faith. * * * * Practically, the whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of the book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Attack on Harvard. | 4/18/1885 | See Source »

...progressive university cannot carry out to the end all plans for your welfare, nor exercise a parential care over you, thus inculcating the first principles of independence of action. The lesson to be learned in this case is, that if you buy a rope about 150 feet long, and fasten it to the staple, you might escape, provided the rope did not burn before you reached the ground." What we wish to impress on everybody is, that if he neglects to obtain a rope after the generous advance of a staple, his blood is on his own head, in case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/1/1884 | See Source »

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