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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strange that the recent visit of the apostle of "sweetness and light" should not have brought home to us to a greater degree the need, the crying need of our time and our country,-culture. The influence of Mr. Arnold's writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present...
...belief that this article represents with substantial accuracy the position of the authorities of Harvard College in the matter, and as such deserves the widest circulation, we present it in full below. We still hold that the antithesis spoken of is unduly emphasized and need not necessarily exist, in spite of the Spirit's arguments to the contrary. But to prolong this controversy seems to us at present unprofitable. We need only further remark that we consider the Spirit's dismal prophecy of a "conflict" between faculty and students as unwarranted. The article reads...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. The urgent need for better dormitory accommodations must be met in some way in the near future. As soon as the college can secure available funds a new dormitory will undoubtedly be erected, but meanwhile it has suggested itself to the minds of many that old Massachusetts could be refitted at comparatively small expense in such a way as to provide pleasant quarters to a great number of men. It is but a few years since the building was altered to its present condition owing to doubts as to the strength of its walls...
...past years it has often happened that the marks were not announced to sections until many weeks after the examinations were over. This not only keeps the students in a state of unnecessary suspense, but often prevents them from learning in which courses they have been deficient and need to pay most attention to during second half-year. On the other hand a student may have valued his work in the examination room too highly and be tempted to slight a course in favor of others, until he learns to his dismay that he has been marked lower than...
...putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both Harvard and Yale, for reasons best known to itself. It must be evident, even to the Spirit of the Times, that it would be utter folly...