Word: objections
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...whom this question, squarely faced, does not afford ample scope for profitable reflections on the past and good resolutions for the future. We have two extremes in college to whom a consideration of this subject would be highly advantageous, - the one easily recognizable, and in fact the ordinary object of moral disquisitions; but I would refer more particularly to the other, namely, to men who sometimes take the highest college honors. Thanks to the system of instruction now practised in the college, a man may pass through his entire course, under the complete dominance of other minds, and while obtaining...
...will be understood that the collection makes no moneyed profit from any of these sales. Its object is simply to foster the growing taste in the community for the higher forms of Art. Beauty cannot be known till seen; till the mind, indeed, is brought into somewhat familiar contact with it. By making beautiful objects easily accessible, the College may hope that its students will soon prefer these to the inane works which now decorate too many of their rooms. The keen interest which many of you are already showing is, I assure you, a source of sincere satisfaction...
...come to our principal object, how much larger and more beneficial would the effects of the institution be made if the smokers were not entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after-dinner cigar over some light reading, not in his own possession, but yet so near at hand. Yet if one of the two privileges, smoking or reading, must be given up, the latter, it is much to be regretted, is the one which is usually dispensed with. It is now too late...
...teach us, but in every case we shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will be detected sooner, and, as a rule, college men are too honorable to side with...
Though it has been known in a general way, for over a year, in undergraduate circles, that this collection could be seen by any one who eared to make application to the Curator, it has been as little visited by them as another object of interest in Cambridge, - our fine Observatory, with its mammoth telescope, a sight of which blesses the eyes and satisfies the curiosity of undergraduates but once in their four years' course, and only then by a gracious "special invitation...