Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...STUDENTS OF AMERICA:The students of Russia are many hundred of miles in distance from you, but they think of your land and your freedom very often. The same aspirations for the world of books and for an education animate them that animate you, but in their case, let me tell you, the obstacles to be overcome are vastly greater. Of the Schavic people, I am told, you know but little, and but meagre accounts reach you. I am not to tell you of the struggle going on over our vast Empire. The universities are a peculiar battleground for this...
...gravel walks are so poorly graded and drained, and the flag walks so badly laid that they are all a series of puddles from end to end. The college may think that plank walks are more expensive than a proper grading and relaying of the paths. If so let them take this latter method of improvement. But this would be but a makeshift. These are many times when the best graded paths become clogged with snow and ice. In such cases the paths are as bad as poorly graded ones. The only satisfactory remedy in such cases is a system...
...thinking it makes him of more importance to be known as a member of some swell or noted club. This is all wrong. No club stands better than the Harvard Athletic Association in either of these respects and it does not add to a man's worth if he lets his vanity get the better of him by trying to exhibit himself as a member of various organizations. In games where Harvard students are likely to be present as spectators they would like to know what men entered belong to the college. How can they know this, when the college...
...adopted, for it would enable them at such crowded times as the present to get a better chance at the books on the reference shelves, to suit their own convenience better in their use of the library, and to have a well lighted room for general reading and study. Let the authorities only take the matter in hand and the students will aid them to the best of their ability...
...last the university has become desperate and thinks to frighten American colleges into rowing with her by declaring that unless within sixty days her challenges are accepted she will claim the championship of America. By all means let her claim it if it will bring her any satisfaction, but if she expects that 'public opinion' will support her claim we fear she is doomed to bitter disappointment...