Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whatever its merits may be - attracts; and, considering the Faculty of the College to be on the whole the most prominent body in Cambridge, they have attacked the Faculty in a column of what I suppose to have been intended for polished irony. The excuse for their attack is found in certain tickets, recently issued by order of the President and not of the Faculty, which they appear to regard as mere tickets of admission, for everybody connected with the College and for all the friends of such persons, to every entertainment given by the students; and accordingly they bring...
...social and intellectual equals of its editors, it will find that an exposition of its views, worded in a rational and courteous way, will have far more weight with the College public than a violent attack written in a style of which the best models are to be found in the less reputable dailies of our cities and in the college journals of the far West...
...long after that, one morning they found him cold and dead...
...dissertations of excellence reminds us that the incentives to exertion in the fields of literature are confined, with us, entirely to prose. We have had here, in the past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very good poetry, but we have not yet found one who possessed both the means and the disposing frame of mind to encourage the rising lights in the poetic firmament. At Oxford the prize poem is something which is struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize has been awarded yearly, for many generations...
...could offer here the means of living to a score or two of graduates each year, we should have almost the last requirement toward making Harvard a university in the sense that Cambridge and Oxford are universities. But we must wait until those who leave money to found colleges discover that their money would do more good by increasing the usefulness of institutions already established, than by adding another name to the list of mushroom colleges with which the country abounds...