Word: leste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems, in a perfectly orderly manner), whereby some sixty students...
...racing contests, then the "boom" is to be deplored rather than welcomed. I am not such a fanatic as to disapprove of all racing with canoes; the Lake George races of the A. C. A. have been interesting, enjoyable, and strictly non professional. But I am very apprehensive lest canoeing at Harvard, if once taken under the patronage of a canoe club, would inevitably degenerate into merely one other opportunity for class and college contests. True, if a club could be established which would confine itself principally to cruises, and make races a minor consideration; it would certainly...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Some time since I addressed a communication to your paper in which I advocated the introduction of beer and ale at Memorial Hall. In your editorial of yesterday I see that you do not agree with me, and are fearful lest some case of excessive drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras...
...Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there was no escape. I must be content with pointing out the peculiar dangers from fire that thus threaten our colleges. I noticed them when I was myself an undergraduate, but my attention has been...
Miss Dickinson is to cross the dramatic Rubicon next Monday evening; she will appear in New York as Hamlet, and is said to dread lest the withering criticism of the city will destroy the laurels she has won in the provinces...