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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...must close; I'm getting on quite well, as first I stated...
Lectures on the History of the First Church in Cambridge. By ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, and the Shepard Congregational Society. Boston: Congregational Publishing Society...
...first day that I waited here was like to be my last...
...have written this for two reasons: first, because legitimate advertising in the College will become worthless if business establishments are continually canvassed by irresponsible parties; second, what is of more importance, the honor of the College is certainly at stake if public opinion shall excuse swindling. We all have a sympathy for such peccadilloes as breaking windows or "ragging" signs, though even they are objectionable on the score of puerility; at any rate, there is in them neither meanness nor avarice nor downright dishonesty, only an effervescence of deviltry. But when these customs, skill in which is esteemed among...
...first place, it is a compromise between desire to try a change and fear of possible bad effects; and, as is usually the case with a compromise, it fails to give any sure test. Suppose that this plan works ill, it does not therefore follow that the other plan, of allowing those in the later years of college to study as seems most advantageous to themselves, would also fail. For the latter would bring an entirely new element into the experiment; that is, it would rouse in nearly all the students a sense of responsibility, without which no system...