Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average college journalist is seldom possessed of sufficient nerve to attack abuses which through long standing have become recognized as unassailable and beyond the student's reach. With the advent of warm weather we may expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state...
...pleasing diversities of Harvard life is the amount of thought which is bestowed upon the student by his anxious admirers of every class. We hear at times the religious wail soon drowned in the cry of horror arising at the news of a "Harvard rush." And as a fitting accompaniment, we hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful...
...last issue of the Nation contains a new attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing...
...Patch is prepared to continue his instruction on the Guitar, and would be glad to hear from former pupils, or any wishing to take up this instrument. For terms and particulars, address as above, box 76, Waltham, Mass...
...Patch is prepared to continue his instruction on the Guitar, and would be glad to hear from former pupils, or any wishing to take up this instrument. For terms and particulars, address as above, box 76, Waltham, Mass...