Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lighting the college yard and buildings. Every evening that the moon is expected to appear, the lamps in the yard are left unlit. Now it very frequently happens that a rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such a state of affairs should exist...
...death of Abner Ernest Strong, we feel that the hand of Providence has taken from our number one whose earnest life, high endeavor, and steadfast character has gained our sincere respect and esteem. As his classmates, we have recognized his success as a student; as his friends, we have seen those genial qualities which spring from generous impulse and which cement true friendship. We remember, too, at the time, with satisfaction his deep and constant Christian faith and his active Christian influence. At the same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have...
...course, circumstances alter all cases, but we cannot but feel deeply that only by much long-suffering and patient work our present religious system has been evolved, and we should be sorry if other colleges should be afraid to follow our methods for fear of being thought to imitate, - as sundry persons have suggested might be the case...
...rather the abuse of the privileges offered in the use of them that the general opinion must have obtained that the students were an irresponsible set of mischievous school children, and also that the library management was very inadequate. While rare instances of abuse may have occurred, we feel sure that a grain of patience added to a grain of comprehension could be taken by the grumblers with good effect. The books which cannot be found are not always "surreptitiously taken by a member of - ," as the communication of yesterday in regard to the binder showed. The communication...
...been invariably marked ??? general courtesy upon the part of the underclassmen, and we are loth to think that in any case, tact and gentle-manly courtesy will not procure what is desired. The matter, however, in each case is one that is purely personal, and we therefore feel that any public notice of the matter is unfortunate. Many good reasons may exist why an underclassman desires to use his own room on Class Day. These reasons ought to be respected in every particular...