Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sport in which he is engaged and the time devoted to it. There is, however, a general development which distinguishes the athletic from the nonathle ic class. Knowing as we do, the influence of physical activity upon the development of the individual, it is fair to presume that a like influence will be exerted on the development of a class...
...commencement complete the list of the social attractions at the "Hamp." No complaint is more commonly made in college than the complaint that class spirit is dying out. And there is much to support this belief. True, the lower classes manifest their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class spirtit such as exists to-day in many colleges, is a thing of the past at Amherst. And this change is due to the growth of Greek-letter societies, which have come to occupy first place...
...cardinal sin of the calendar is a matter of doubt. Such it is regarded here; and it has become a common saying among those who have never been benefitted by our civilization that "a Harvard man is so afraid of doing something which will make him appear like a fool, that he never does anything at all." So our hands are tied by this fearful spectre of making a fool of ourselves. We have seen men who make it their peculiar business to circulate through the college, say nothing themselves, and as soon as they hear an opinion expressed...
...interesting and well-presented matter. The only exception that may well be taken to the selection of the articles is that, with two exceptions, they are all poetry, or else prose about poetry. Even granting that poetry is the "purest distillation of human thought," the reader of a magazine like the monthly is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, at finding it an anthology pure and simple. It might have been well to keep some of the verse for the adornment of the next number. Mr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot contributes the leading article on "The Future of Philosophy at Harvard...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to repeat and emphasize the suggestion made last year by one of your correspondents, that it would be a very good thing if the laboratories in Boylston Hall were kept open until five o'clock on Saturdays, as on other days, instead of being closed at one. It often happens that a man is obliged, by illness or other causes, to cut his laboratory work for a few days. He thus gets behindhand in his work, yet through no fault of his own. If the laboratories were open on Saturday afternoon it would...