Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rule, like to find fault with our sister papers, but we cannot let the last freak of the Lampoon go unnoticed. That publication has declared its intention of caricaturing members of the University whenever a fitting opportunity presents itself. Now that kind of thing was tried when the Lampoon was first started, and the consequences were disastrous. College opinion objected, and with justice, to this degraded form of wit; and we beg to warn the Lampoon that it is more than probable that college opinion will object again. There is plenty of wit and versatility in a big university like...
...share. (d) It was part of a scheme to spend the surplus and prevent reduction of taxation. (e) It was a precursor of similar and worse bills. (f) The money was to go to States and not to people whence it came. (g) It would induce extravagance and waste like that of 1837. (h) It was a log-rolling measure and likely to pass without attention...
...save with Yale or other colleges within New England. Whether this would be a wise measure or not, it is difficult to decide at the present moment. It is certainly taking a fairer, more impartial view of the case. We believe in a discreet control of athletics at Harvard; like everything else, they should be conducted with moderation. But abolition is not the proper remedy, and never will be, as long as manly, healthy Americans are gathered in a great university like this. If such treatment is tried, and as long as it is tried, other colleges will...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to bring into general prominence through the columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical...
...classical studies. Still another fellowship, with the same annual income of $600, is awarded to that member of the Academic Department who shall show most evidence of attainments and promise in any branch of physical science. This fellowship, founded in memory of Benjamin Silliman, a former professor, is like the rest granted for three years...