Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only joy in life...
...PROPOSE to devote this article to the amenities of college life in May. We have been told a great many times what a delightful month this is in other places, but Harvard has certain beauties of its own at this time of the year that are worthy of record, and would be sufficient even for a tolerably long epic. First, of course, here as everywhere else, we have this delightful spring weather, these beautiful days with the mercury reaching after ninety, and your spring suit still at the tailor's. Then these charming evenings, occupied in grinding for the annuals...
...last year heroically rescued from drowning a man whose shell had capsized. The craft will be moored at the float, for the general convenience of the H. U. B. C., and under the careful and experienced attention of the vice-president, it will hereafter be regularly used as a life-boat. This assurance of means of rescue all ready in case of accident will satisfy an imperative need of beginners in the noble art of sculling, and will give them courage for renewed exertions...
...absence of college men from public life, always a cause of more or less comment and wonder, has recently, by a high authority, been particularly mentioned and regretted in reference to Harvard. All of us, I think, regret it, and many of us are ambitious to some day increase the number of Harvard's delegation to Washington; but we all feel that there is too little provision here made to fit us for such honorably useful positions as those at which, it is to be supposed, this ambition aims. In pursuance of that well-considered scheme of study which...
...complete our training and render us fitted for public life, if called upon, we need such instruction as shall teach us, by examples from present history, to clearly see the relations between cause and effect, between theory and practice, between the fundamental principles we have been learning in history and political economy and the apparently disconnected and eccentric movements of the world to-day. Such instruction would be too wide and comprehensive to be confined within the limits of an elective course. If given this year, it should have enabled us to understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which...