Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weight of that authority. The writer of the editorial in question does "conscientiously" deny many of the "facts stated," and declares them to have been the offspring of an ignorant or a prejudiced mind. As for conclusions, he who runs may read. We trust that the writer's Elijah-like horror at the "tabooing" of the discussion of morning prayers since the last glorious but fatal prayer petition will wear off with his increasing years. It is high time that some reply, however inadequate, should be offered to the contemptuous sneers and jealous animadversions of which Harvard has been made...
...larger colleges do, and will exist, and if in truth they are the champions, the fact that certain other colleges have first places in another league will neither add to the dignity of those colleges nor help them in their proficiency at base-ball. The case is like that of the University of Pennsylvania, which formed a boating league consisting of itself only, and finding itself number one at the end of a long series of league contests, declared that it was likewise number one for all the college boating leagues of the country. In regard to the statement that...
...smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever...
...quietly mediate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip the Chapel of its decorations, and finally remove the compulsory feature, and allow the Quaker-like spirit of devotion to manifest itself in its full voluntary aspect...
...state of society, however, was very uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...