Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should like to see it do more, but there are certain facts in the condition of the college which perhaps preclude its doing more work as now constituted. The first and main one is this, that as a body of students, we come too early to college to have formed opinions on any large subject, and also that most of us have had no literary education to form such opinions. The mass of students here, excluding the class that come merely for amusement, come here to have their opinions formed and widened on all subjects to be made...
...speaking is excellent, as every member is put on his mettle, and while likely to be judged unsparingly, if he has ability it is quickly appreciated. Again the reproduction in the petty theatre of the rivalry of the leading parties brings the vital issues at stake in a simplified form before the members, and yet shows the real difficulties of general legislation; while too the individual members have to make a study of the peculiar wants of their constituencies, they gain much valuable information, which cannot but broaden them in their judgment, and make them less narrow in looking...
Granting for argument that religion and politics should never be brought up for discussion, it does seem as if at Harvard a university club could be formed that might organize a capital petty congress; with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details...
...Crimson. Although both papers had made for themselves a place in the college world, and although it might have been quite possible to carry them both on successfully, it was deemed best by the boards of both papers to effect a consolidation, and by uniting their interests to form a new paper, which, while naturally partaking of much of the character of the former publications, would yet be free from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either the Herald or the Crimson. We believe that...
...effect of the great in crease of college athletics upon the intellectual vigor of the students ? 2. Is it desirable that the university training of the present day should be of a more practical character ? 3. Would England gain anything, politically, by the abolition of the monarchical form of government ? 4. Was Julius Caesar actuated by criminal ambition in overthrowing the Roman Republic...