Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The opponents of the consolidation are, as has been said, the principal undergraduates. Their objections seem to be sound from an undergraduate point of view. In the first place, there is doubt if a man of sufficient ability could be got to fill successfully the office of chief treasurer: and...
"The most useful college is the one which has no dominant sect. At Harvard, where more than one thousand students are gathered together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly...
There are at Harvard about 1600 men; it is a small world in itself; made up, as the outside world is, of the good, bad and indifferent; of those who have high, noble principles, and who are here to work earnestly, and of those who are here without an object...
In the after life of a young man, who comes here with noble principles, with active habits and true purposes, the four years will show their influence in a more perfected manhood, and in broader and sounder views of living. But on the other hand, if a young man is...
If we were to judge the character of all from the positively expressed characters of the few, we would agree with some of our staid, well-meaning friends in thinking that "those Harvard boys are the worst lot this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree...