Word: notions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition that the patriotism of college men is different from that of Americans who haven't the good fortune to go to college; the other is the notion of a Harvard Freshman or Sophomore as the wielder of an "austere academical influence." There was no course in austere influences in my day; and we were never advised to use any particular brand of patriotism. In fact, we were rather led to believe that those who occupy the choicest...
...forced to conclude that disagreeable as yesterday's experience was, the college was fortunate in that nothing worse happened. If it had taken place at night-well, the notion is not pleasant. Two lessons are to be learned. We need better fire escapes, and Cambridge has outgrown her system of village fire companies...
...real injury can result from the increase of the suffrage. Naturally enough the recipients of the Harvard degree of A. B. should consider themselves a little more closely connected with Harvard affairs than other people, even though they do not always take the trouble to vote, but the notion that there is danger of introducing an undesirable element into the vote, is to say the least, a trifle visionary. If a man has not the interests of the University at heart, he is not likely to vote. If he is sincere in his support, his vote will be a positive...
...Permanent athletic arrangements with Yale are not for the good of the University.- (a) They cause Harvard and Yale to be regarded as the Cambridge and Oxford of America.- (1) Not in accord with Harvard's policy.- (b) By avoiding permanent relations this false notion would be removed-(1) Athletics would become more normal.- (c) Harvard comes to consider Yale as her peculiar rival and "bosom enemy."- (1) Less interest in recent Princeton game than in last Yale game, though as great a defeat.- (d) Such arrangements tend unfairly to raise the literary estimate of Yale,- (1) Yale gains...
...could be virtuous; still less without measure, by which was meant method, regularity, decorum. But greater than all these was the virtue most peculiar to their society and destined to have the greatest vogue in Europe: love. As a Christian virtue, love was already sufficiently familiar; but the new notion was different from the old, and even antagonistic to it. It carried with it a rehabilitation of woman, and brought an entire change of sentiment towards...