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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...respectfully recommend it to pay strict attention to the tone of such criticism. Statements to the effect that Harvard College is inculcating principles which will turn out "corrupt politicians, embezzlers, and forgers" are at least metaphorical, and are liable to give the public erroneous ideas. Great injustice and harm has already been done the College in this way by the public press, which is only too ready to seize upon such rumors, especially when they come from a paper which claims to represent undergraduate opinion. If the Echo continues to be straight-forward and sensible, and if it will avoid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...their way into the newspapers. Two articles have lately appeared, one in the Springfield Republican and one in the Boston Herald, which repeat the time-worn story of Harvard barbarity and excess. Such reports are eagerly seized upon by many persons in the community, and do the University irremediable harm. It is true that there are evils at Harvard, and it is also true that there are evils in the world outside. Such evils as we have here we had better face boldly; there is nothing gained by keeping them out of sight. But it is a crime to parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...course, in studying books of our own or even of the Library, it does little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKING BOOKS. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...think otherwise) I desire to make an emphatic objection, and I am confident that all who are at all interested in athletics will join with me in opposing this project. If, however, I have been misinformed, as I hope I have been, it will possibly be of no harm to direct the attention of the "powers that be" to the necessity of furnishing our new gymnasium with the best and most improved modern apparatus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...natural hostility to new opinions more productive of good or harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

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