Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...really distinctive of Harvard, - whether it is not, after all, a fiction for which the college seal is largely responsible. Such doubts are suggested less by occasional violations of honor in the college life than by the difficulty of believing that there is anything about a constantly changing community like ours, which should really put a higher premium upon sincerity than is done in the world at large...
Harvard must meet this activity by a like increase of energy. There is but one way to do this and that is for every man here who has any ability at all in speaking to interest himself, and to show his interest by taking part in the competitive debates. We hope that there will be a very large number of candidates for the honor of representing the University in the contest with Princeton...
...have been asked to call attention to the fact that but few seniors have yet taken the trouble to sit for their class pictures. While it is doubtless true that class spirit here at Harvard is gradually dying out and is already nothing like as strong as it is in most other American colleges, it does seem that in this case, where no expense is incurred, even those men who do not care anything for a complete class album, might put themselves out a bit for the sake of those...
...state of things is very generally passing away and no one thing is of more importance in its extinction than a constantly growing body of people who are total abstinents. Some people with diseased nervous systems are utterly incapable of resisting the desire to drink it comes to them like a mania, while others have simply contracted the habit of indulgence from time to time. Although at one time alcohol was thought to pass through the system without suffering a change, it has been discovered more recently that it is destroyed in the system and in this sense...
Walter Pater was not only a writer, he was also a figure in academic life. During all his working life he was a Fellow, or a resident, at Oxford, and it is there we like best to think of him. Pater was in no way a reformer. He cared as much for the past as Matthew Arnold and Henry James did for the present. As a critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only...