Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disgraced abroad, as we have so often been, by men unfit to be our agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been set her. By founding such a school as we have spoken of let her be among the first to try to regenerate and lend vigor and honor to our politics...
...Let it pass - for she left...
...highest consideration. Because "Smintheus" had satirized the Record in the Acta's columns, the edict of Yale's wrath was pronounced against it. We regret that "Smintheus" should have indulged in personalities. But before we even settle the justifiability of the satire that thus uncorked the editorial spleen, let us ask if the Record's and the Courant's attitude toward "Smintheus" has been pleasant or gentlemanly. In view of the uncomplimentary epithets (which we do not care to repeat) that have been freely used by the Record and the Courant, we do not think that complaints, least...
...certain comparisons not at all to the advantage of the English Department of Harvard College. He may be pardoned for repeating a sentence or two from a former article of his own in Vol. XV. of the Crimson : "If the Freshman year must consist of required studies, let Rhetoric be transferred from the Sophomore year, and let there be, in addition, some good elementary course in English Literature; give too, if you like, the writing of Themes to Freshmen.... In advocating a substitution of English for Mathematics and Classics in the Freshman year, we do not deny that...
Even at the risk of repetition, let us see what the facts in the case are. "Honors in Modern Languages are based mainly on French and German. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses." If Graduate Courses a and b (under Modern Languages) could be added to the present list as requisites for Final Honors in English, - a thing at present unknown, - these, together with six hours of English 2, and possibly another hour of English 7, would amply deserve such Final Honors - something more, at least, than Honorable Mention, which...