Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know that in the existing order of things at Harvard there are many glaring inconsistencies. We all likewise hope that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more...
...important, passably lucrative, and quite honorable position of proctor, to the exclusion of men of abler scholarship and presumably closer interest with the University, who graduated in '75, '76, and '77. Such action as we complain of is frequent in German universities of equal standing with Harvard, but we hope that hereafter the committee will give the preference to Harvard graduates, to whom, other things being equal, it of right belongs...
...thus he is compelled to defer his work at least until the next day. While we can see the necessity of keeping periodicals in the Library during Library hours, we think that all magazines should be placed on the same footing as books of reference; and we earnestly hope that some change will be made whereby we may gain the full benefit of these periodicals...
...remarkably fine section, this of ours, but it has its peculiarities. There is a little saying, -which I hope you have never heard, -that it takes all kinds of people to make up a world. So it is with that part of the world which consists of our section. There are men in it that I thought -before I came to college -only existed in the uncivilized "universities" of the far West...
This, then, must be the "Harvard indifference" about which I have heard so much. I am trying for it now, and I hope to be expert when I go home at Christmas. What though my father will murmur "Snobling"! I respect him because he is a relative of mine; but he is too much of a fogy to appreciate the finesse in being Harvardly indifferent...