Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student is admitted to College with conditions, such conditions will stand against him, unless for special excellence of scholarship during part or all of his first college year, the Faculty, on recommendation of the class instructors, cancel them. All such conditions not so canceled will be treated like conditions on college studies in accordance with the provisions of Rule...
...away. For example, out of the hundred or more men in History XIII hardly fifteen daily make use of the books reserved by Dr. Hart, although a large amount of reference work is necessary in that course in order to reap its full benefit. The advantages of a library like the one here are manifest, and if one does not practically discover it when he is a freshman, he surely ought during his second year make up what he lost the first. The Harvard spirit does not drive men to work. They must find out for themselves, and must...
...Privileges in government are like sciences, they grow rather than spring into existence at a single bound. Thus it has been with English liberties and the English Parliament. It is to the humble Witenagemote that the cause may be traced of the present influential gathering at Westminster...
...other slight idiosyncrasies of our famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply the lack of means coupled with the accessory idea of lack of instructors. The English department has attempted by a new system of reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead of writing the junior themes, shall...
...disgrace of '88 and '89, the former especially, this good record of former years has been broken. We feel that we but voice the sentiment of the majority of Harvard men when we say that the performance of last night was small, contemptible, boyish and un-Harvard like in the extreme, and deserves the censure of the earnest men of all classes...