Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year was necessarily a very expensive one. To the large amount of money (about $2,000) paid for new boats was added the expense of keeping the crew for weeks at a training-table while still in Cambridge. The receipts from college subscriptions were about the same as in former years, but there was less than half the usual amount received from theatricals. Altogether the financial condition of the H. U. B. C. is fairly satisfactory, when the extra exertions of last year are remembered...
...There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired...
...subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general influence of this kind supplanting the former parental authority? Are there no signs of the laxity of unrestraint, with no stronger guide than the undeveloped character which youth itself supplies unaided...
...five hundred dollars, and we trust that it will be speedily forthcoming. An examination of the treasurer's account will show that while the expenses have been larger than usual this year, the amount which has been asked for from subscription-lists is much smaller than in former years. It is evident that care and economy have been used in the management of the Nine, and if the five hundred dollars they ask for is readily subscribed, there is good reason to believe that they will close the season as the winners of the College championship, with all their bills...
...former, she - or rather Harvard's powers...