Word: letters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Letter-Writing IV. should only be open to those students who had attained 70 per cent in Freshman prescribed small-talk. The textbooks in this course should be Jules Michelet's "L' Amour," and Robinson's "Multum in Parvo; or, The Art of saying a great Deal when you have Nothing to talk about." It is thought that these four electives would cover all the branches of letter-writing, and would be of more practical advantage to the student than any course now given in college. Persons not connected with the College in any way are apt to think that...
...October Mr. William Blakie wrote a letter to the New York Tribune reviewing the crews of the late regatta and examining their future prospects. Under the impression that we have three men of the last crew who will pull next summer, he says that "instead of again putting off most of the coaching also till the winter is over, it ought to be done now. With three new men as strong and enduring as the present three, with adequate coaching, and two or three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this...
...last word of the sentence, "represented,"* which occurs twice in the letter with quotation-marks and once without, is rather interesting as a puzzle to find out what may be the peculiar significance of the marks in one place and their omission in another...
...fact of their not belonging to the Association of American Colleges being of course of no account, as they undoubtedly would be received into it with open arms upon the expression of the slightest wish to belong to it - which are set forth in the conclusion of the letter must be satisfactory both to themselves and every one else: for if they are too busy, that is their own business; if they are too poor, every one will allow that Saratoga is not the place for them; and if they are too proud, surely no one wishes their attendance...
There was one idea contained in the letter which struck me as being particularly valuable and worthy of note, and that was to have contests in some useful and honest work between students. Looking from both a pecuniary and moral point of view, how much better it would be for Harvard to give up her boating and athletic sports, which not only involve great expenditure of money, but also foster vice by creating in students a desire for betting, and devote a part of the money hither-to spent on these to the purchase of agricultural implements and the formation...