Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that Yale men take sides, it requires that they applanud impartially the good plays of both teams. A warm welcome is due to each nine as it enters the field, but we would suggest that there be no concerted cheering. Perfect impartiality today will do much toward strengthening the friendship of both Harvard and Princeton for Yale...
Tomorrow evening the students will have their first opportunity of listening in their own chapel to the Reverend George Hodges, D. D., the new Dean of the Episcopal Theological School. When Dr. Lawrence was Dean of the School the students were bound to him by ties of personal friendship and the University was often indebted to him for helpful words in the various religious services at Appleton Chapel. It is to be hoped that the same relations of mutual interest and support may exist between Dr. Hodges and the University and we bespeak for him at this his first service...
...combinations which tend so strongly to narrow our student life. But this meeting is not in itself enough. If college life is to broaden out into its best form, the college press and every influence which has any place here must excite itself to tighten the bond of real friendship, and to eliminate whatever of hypocrisy and insincerity may now remain among us. Things are started in the right direction and it only remains to keep them going...
...personal friend, a warm hearted and generous helper and councillor to almost every man in college for all these years. It was the fashion for every student to love and honor him. With him has passed away a certain spirit of familiarity and friendship between professors and students, for his retirement came at a time when the University was beginning to grow most rapidly and was losing somewhat the "Harvard spirit." Thus this article leads to "The Decadence of the Harvard Spirit; A Conversation" by Hugh McCulloch. This article was fully discussed in an editorial published in the CRIMSON...
...Lady Austen, and soon there grew up a close friendship. Her lively spirits drove the melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper...