Word: music
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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VARIOUS opinions that have been expressed on articles in the college papers treating of music at Harvard deserve some comment...
Having made this assumption, we then attempted to show in a few words that we had not much good music here, using Yale and Amherst, where music is generally acknowledged to be good, as standards of comparison, not as places setting a fashion that it might be well to adopt at Harvard...
...point we tried to bring out clearly was, not why we should have more and better music at Harvard, but why we do not have it. This we traced back to the prevailing lack of energy, for which we could neither account nor propose any remedy...
...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...
Keeping time to the music's sweet flow...