Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-In the Princeton letter yesterday an allusion was made which would have carried less force had the facts been more plainly and fully stated by the author of the aforesaid letter. The gentleman, having in his mind the Princeton-Pennsylvania score of 31 to 0. says : 'I don't understand how the University of Pennsylvania beat Harvard? Leaving out of the question all flings at the referee, which at best are but cowardly utterances as against a man who cannot defend himself, I think I can account for Princeton's decide victory, though not for Harvard...
Matthews says : "Of all the efforts of the human mind, there is no one which demands for its success so rare a union of mental gifts as eloquence." Would not those efforts be commendable whose object it is to cultivate in our fellow students an ambition to excel in oratory ? I trust others of the students will express their opinions of this proposition...
...thing must be borne in mind however, the hall is run in the interest of those who cannot pay more than $4.25; and although by means of the order list the board is made elastic so that members can get $8.00 board if they choose, it has been found impossible to make the service elastic. They can't put waiters on the order list. So members should remember before they complain about the waiters, that $4.25 wont pay swell French waiters any more than it will buy porter-house steaks...
...various considerations have suggested themselves to me which made me regret my vote. I should be sorry to have to carry such a transparency myself in the procession, and sorry to have it carried in the class. Will you allow me the use of your columns to speak my mind in the matter...
...Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish...