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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What a number of very young men, in very correct costumes, one sees, who wear a studied look of painful indifference...
...popular at present, but I believe them to be just, and I fear that it will not be long before their truth is proved by practical experience. The essence of cooperation is cooperation, and the secret of success is concentration. Therefore, if cooperation at Harvard is to look for any success at all, all efforts towards it should be concentrated for the success of one experiment in the matter. No harder blow could be struck at the prospects of a cooperative society at Harvard than the failure of her cooperative dining association; for it would seem a most useless waste...
This is not the first time that the existence of Memorial has hung by a thread which the slightest strain would easily break. It is now time, once for all, to determine the needs of its future and permanent welfare. We must look the facts squarely in the face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show...
Guiteau, although he still holds that he was inspired, begins to look upon his execution as a settled fact...
...impression prevails, among those who are accustomed to attend the athletic meetings, that by the new method of pulling the tug-of-war all the interest will be taken away. To a casual observer it would look as though very little interest or enthusiasm would attach to eight men pulling against each other, braced by cleats, with the end of the rope passed around a padded belt worn by the anchor; but, as in every game there are points, so in the tug-of-war there are tricks for gaining a fair advantage, used by the participants. The present...