Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commonplace sentiment, or take the Ann Arbor Chronicle, with its keen appreciation of the humorous in verse, with its true, natural unforced sentiment, with its unborrowed thought, and if Harvard can show any productions excelling these in average she will do well. 'Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good...
...students. Furthermore, Harvard has inherited from the past not only these blessings, but she has acquired that tone of broad culture which time alone can give. In her the lapse of years has done so much to remove crudities that for a long period yet she need fear none of her younger rivals...
...that could be devised. Those ideals of life which Harvard has given men would have been given them if a compulsory chapel had never been thought of. Moral teaching does not gain any efficacy from compulsion. Yet this the present system quite neglects. Compulsion is continued because of a fear that without it the service could not be carried on, and everyone knows the fact. Is this a moral lesson? If it be true that the only method of giving moral guidance to Harvard men is to shut them up in a large room, and force it into their unwilling...
...prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have...
...Cambridge there is at some colleges, a longer term allowed before a man must go in for the first of the three university examinations, but otherwise the general tenor of the system is similar. Fear of encroaching too much on your space prevents me from entering into many details which might be of interest, especially as to the papers set at the various examinations, of which I regularly receive copies...