Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise...
...reward of a progressive advance in their curricula; if, neglecting the standards of the preparatory schools, they would demand a higher order of work for admission to their doors, and by so doing force the preparatory schools to elevate the character of their work, we would hear less comparisons between our various colleges and find that the work of all more nearly approached the standard of the ideal university...
...thoroughly American student I wish to protest against this narrowing down of our models. I cannot see that I am less patriotic because, finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects. If the students of Johns Hopkins found that their meeting could be best conducted under the rules of the English "Commons," they were justified in using its rules. When we Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the best ideas and customs of other nations, it is not strange that...
NOTICE TO SENIORS. - Sittings for the class photographs are not being made fast enough. The number made is less than that of previous classes up to date. Unless 75 more sit before the holidays, the heliotype album cannot be considered, as all the sittings must be made earlier to get it. In case enough sit to warrant it, a book will be placed at Bartlett's for those who wish the album, which will contain the members of the class, and if 100 are ordered, will cost $21, and if 50, $22.50. The '83 album can be seen...
Call at J. W. Brine's and see the beautiful line of English Macintoshes at less than Boston prices. We have the best $1 Gingham Umbrella in the world. Leather Shooting Coats in large variety. J. W. Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard...