Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - If space permits I should like to express through the columns of the CRIMSON what seems to be the general opinion in regard to last Wednesday's game. In the first place '86 showed a most contemptible spirit in refusing to wait a day as requested. The '87-'88 game was twice postponed at the request of the respective captains. Why could not '86 have been as courteous? Was their standing as foot-ball players or gentlemen raised by saying that '87 could play with substitutes or forfeit the game? Were they proud of the fact that...
...highly edifying, considering the fact that the former was not particularly noticeable for his own reticence in various subjects connected with the contest. Let us hope that in the coming game with '88 the team will act a little more as Harvard students are supposed to act and less like something else...
...hour. At ten and a half minutes past, the class left the recitation room and made no answer to the instructor who came in at that moment and said that he was at the disposal of the students and would lecture or not at their pleasure. An occurence like this is surely unfortunate, and we hope for the sake of the reputation of Harvard manhood, that nothing of the kind will happen again...
...students at large Mr. Tyler's story will be the feature of the issue. It is well introduced, well maintained, and well concluded. The fancy is not too fanciful, and the realistic is life-like. All students will recognize their freshman feelings in the "uncertainty as to how and where to walk," and the "decision not to learn of elder brothers...
Professor Palmer deals with the objection to free choice on account of the immaturity of students as follows: "Many people seem to suppose that at some epoch in the life of a young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit...