Word: fear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that several departments of the university have endeavored to bring about the substitution of theses for forensics in the case of men who are not candidates for honors, but their efforts have not as yet met with success owing to the fear that the study of English proper might suffer. This fear, however, seems to us ungrounded, when we consider how much greater care is generally given to the preparation of theses than of forensics. Another reason for confining this privilege to candidates for honors may be that it is meant as an additional inducement to students...
...been taken towards establishing a school of modern languages, in which extensive facilities will be offered for linguistic and literary study. But in many directions, especially in scientific work, in chemistry and geology and in the school of arts, the instruction is limited. The true friends of the college fear, however, that it does not possess sufficient elasticity and progressive vitality to expand into a great university, responsive to every need of the age, and especially they fear the conservatism of its trustees who do not seem to sympathize with the great intellectual movements of the present century...
...this fear is well founded, it is thought, before many years have passed, "the college will be superseded by all institution which will be in closer sympathy with the scientific tendencies of modern life," for the public have come to the opinion that it is certainly a narrow policy "to devote time to drilling men in the writing of Greek verse, while leaving them in ignorance of the anatomy and physiology of their own bodies...
...best exponents of the protectionist theory, the advocates of this side of the question can by such arguments only injure their cause among Harvard students who are accustomed to have such subjects treated of in a reasoning if not impartial manner. We cannot, therefore, join the Crimson in the fear for those who read these papers, for any fair-minded man who wishes to hear both sides of the question cannot but be turned against a cause that is forced to use such means for its defence. When something is said on the protectionist side which shows a spirit...
...treasurer may recall, the crew started in with a debt of nearly twelve hundred dollars, and I earnestly hope that this debt may be entirely cancelled, and the Boat Club left free from debt at the end of the year. Unless money is subscribed more freely, however, I fear there will be another deficit at the end of this year. Let me urge the members of the freshman class in particular to make their subscriptions as large as possible. In estimating the amounts to be contributed by the various classes it has been the custom hitherto to count upon thirty...