Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often wonder whether the greedy devouring of magazine reading will not blunt the edge of their old-time appetite for classic works. It is the experience of most students to feel no such effect...
...were, withered in the bud. We mean the growlers, and those of coroner instincts who hold post-mortems over their examinations. The growler, unlike his bibulous namesake, is a cause of depression and nervous exhaustion wherever he goes. It is enough, in the agonies of a protracted grind, to feel your own ignorance and shortcomings without having some lugubrious acquaintance darkly accusing the faculty, the fates, and the well - others, for things for which his own misapplication of energies is responsible. He cannot claim consideration as a pessimist, for a pessimist (according to the latest receipt) must be sadly cheerful...
...uses it that it shall be in his possession no longer than is absolutely necessary. Many of the reference books are to be used by over a hundred students, and each individual delay will therefore result in the serious incommoding of the entire number. We trust that each will feel called upon to save his fellows all delay which may arise from his carelessness...
...hymn is ended, and starting down the aisle before the benediction is half out of the minister's mouth. These things are a gross discourtesy to the great majority who, no matter what they may think about the advisability of morning prayers as now carried on, still feel they owe it to themselves to behave respectfully; - to say nothing of those who join in the service for deeper reasons. Those who make the disturbance seem to forget that Harvard's boast has always been that whatever her merits or demerits elsewhere, her undergraduates are gentlemen in more than mere externals...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team are now at work in the gymnasium, and probably feel that there is no need that they should be urged to do their duty. We do not doubt that hard and faithful training is being done, but we would call the attention of the candidates to the exceptionally strong efforts being made this year at other colleges to wrest the inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia...