Word: goodnesses
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...other though humbler quarters before, and, what is worse, Harvard cannot do otherwise than plead an unqualified "guilty" in the face of them. If it be urged that a short course in rhetoric and a few themes are sufficient for the first object named, that of making our students good writers, then why these severe complaints from those who are presumably qualified to make them? But there is even less to be said against the second charge, inasmuch, as far as can be seen, Harvard's policy toward oratory is to bundle it off to oblivion among the other "lost...
...toward making writers or speakers of those they send out. It belongs, then, to the older institutions to take the lead, bearing in mind that while college graduates are not expected to become demagogues or inordinate office-seekers, they are expected to use their superior education for the greatest good of their fellow-citizens. Whether as editors, authors, or public speakers, the public has a right to demand that they use both tongue and pen with all the power that in them lies to support the best interests of the commonwealth. With this end in view they...
...those who begin to see these enigmas looming up before them, near enough to present in full light all their knotty points, but far enough off to afford time for deliberation. On all the practical questions which he discusses, Mr. Arnold appears to speak impartially and carefully and with good judgment. More than this, however, we cannot say. He is not a deep thinker, but is rather content to repeat what has been said before, or to wander off into anecdotes and instances, very interesting in themselves, but not good as arguments. We would gladly forgive a few more errors...
...seems no more than proper that we should notice what appears to be the death of hazing, though it may be but 2 comatose state into which "that good old custom" has fallen. Of late years hazing has been gradually softening down into a system of roughing - varied by an occasional barbarity - severe enough to injure only that stock of self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed...
...considerable, and his feathers are slightly ruffled by the breezes of controversy. It may not quite become the Magenta to meddle with such matters, yet there are one or two points which it behooves us to notice. The Owl's first article on secular education is good as far as it goes, and perhaps the writer did well to leave untouched the knotty and vexatious question of the public schools; but somebody, on page 27, speaks of "the horrors of that Dominican Inquisition in which some of us once so innocently and unquestionably believed." This is hardly clear. Surely...