Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason it is to be noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict. Let us leave them...
...editors of the Magenta wish to state as their opinion, that the motion passed at the meeting Wednesday afternoon, to the effect that Harvard was not in favor of intercollegiate literary contests, was unnecessary, uncalled for, and ill-timed...
Although these reforms are only experiments as yet, their advantages seem great enough, with certain modifications, to warrant their continuance, and to give strong argument in favor of the assertion, "experiments never go backward...
...possible to make an arrangement by which they shall both enjoy the luxury of rooming alone, and yet be at no great distance from each other. As far as entertaining a great number of visitors is concerned, the under-classman may think it an advantage that tells wonderfully in favor of a chum, but a larger experience probably informs him that there are many inconveniences attending such a way of living. Very often, too, it happens that, from no desire of your chum's or your own, company men drop in because your room is a convenient and pleasant loafing...
...This system, it must be admitted, has several faults. These objects of charity go to school generally unwillingly, and ordinarily are neglected by the teacher. Their comrades, too, know their position, and either despise them or reproach them on account of their poverty. It is, in fact, a humiliating favor. For this reason it is now proposed to do away with this list of children who don't pay and make instruction free to all. But even were education obligatory and free, we still should not occupy a very high position among enlightened nations. And that this is the case...