Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeling of fellowship. Few in numbers, nearly every man is known, if not personally, at least by reputation, to every other man. Moreover, when this body of students is broken up into a number of fraternities and social clubs it is by no means strange that so strong a friendship should spring up as exists in numerous instances. Nearly half of the students belong to the fraternities, of which we have seven, and, from what knowledge I have of similar societies in other colleges, nowhere, I think, are they conducted in quite the same manner as here...
...your issue of the 3d instant an article which, on the whole, gave concisely much interesting and useful information about the "English Universities," a subject respecting which many of your readers would probably be glad to gain fuller knowledge. It would certainly tend to promote feelings at once of friendship and of a generous emulation between the leading universities of New and Old England. With your permission I would venture to suggest two or three points in which the article referred to is somewhat in error. There are twenty-three "colleges" at Oxford and four "halls," which latter...
SECTION 2. The object of this association shall be to build up a social and quasi professional friendship among its members, and to elevate the standard of college journalism, having due regard to local demands and differences...
...expected, also, that the yearly meetings will serve to awaken discussion regarding the best methods of conducting papers and to bring out ideas which may prove useful to those who desire to raise their papers to as high a degree of excellence as possible. Nor will the feeling of friendship, naturally encouraged by membership in an association, be without its good results. For journalistic quarrelling, however exciting it may be to editors themselves, cannot be interesting to readers and does not serve any useful purpose...
...Dartmouth have always been of a most friendly nature, and we trust that they may continue so. But we cannot think that in a matter of this kind Harvard should yield the indisputable right which she possesses of voting in the convention as her interests dictate to motives of friendship...