Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...closer together, and to give an opportunity to talk over the deeper issues of university life. The great trouble here at Harvard is the lack of "team play" among the right minded. There are many who have the best interests of the University at heart, but their efforts are less successful because they lack union. As time goes on, the tendency to deeper thought acquires greater strength. This is shown by the increase, this year, in the attendance at the services at Appleton Chapel, and by the greater receptivity and responsiveness of the students present at these exercises. Large plans...
Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make change for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. Packages of 1 dozen books will remain at the old price, 35 cents and 24 cents...
...teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There is no tennis court without its professional "marker" in England or any other country, and that in a game distinctly less savoring of "professionalism" than any other sport in the world. Throughout athletics and pastimes trained guides are everywhere deemed necessities for the beginner, from countries across the ocean right to Harvard's doors. Is it peculiar to one college that such influence be bad, and that the college the most refined...
Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make changes for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. In packages of 1 dozen books, the prices will still be 35 cents and 24 cents...
...undergraduates for many years and surely knows whereof he speaks. His comments on the abstracting influence of outside work may seem to the undergraduates rather severe but at all events he is impartial in his severity. Every busy man will admit that his routine studies are sacrificed more or less to his societies, his papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time is not wasted. Professor Briggs makes us laugh at our own follies but he would be the last man to advocate an abridgement of the freedom...