Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...correspondent in the last Advocate takes exception to the articles in question because, as he says, the method used of exhorting us to remedy the matter seems to him unwise. We heartily agree with him that it would be very unwise to try to improve musical matters at Harvard by showing that it was "the thing" to sing at Yale or Amherst. Moreover, if he had taken the trouble to read carefully the article in the Crimson before attempting to criticise it, he would have found that no such method of exhortation was there attempted...
...this assumption, we then attempted to show in a few words that we had not much good music here, using Yale and Amherst, where music is generally acknowledged to be good, as standards of comparison, not as places setting a fashion that it might be well to adopt at Harvard...
...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
...objection (which has been urged) that it was not proper to compare Harvard with Amherst and Yale, we can only say that, if we did not suffer by the comparison, such objections would not be entertained for a moment. Who hesitates to compare Harvard as a boating college with Yale...
...Crimson of January 11 there appeared an article entitled "An Index to the North American Review." The article was mainly a compilation of facts from the Index lately completed by Mr. Cushing of the Harvard Library, and cost the author some time and trouble. In the Literary World of March 1 we find an article, "The Index to the North American Review," about which we wish to say a few words. We are always glad that the merits of the Crimson should be duly appreciated, and we cannot help feeling grateful to the gentleman whose name appears...