Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"We are always glad to receive an exchange which is not in the 'ring.' We open it with a sense of security against meeting the 'Enviable Mr. Vassar!' and the means of self-delusion employed by the Vassar Senior pining for masculine society. The University Herald, in its excellent hints...
[The following statement of facts ought to destroy any bad impression caused by the article in the last Magenta. The writer of that article made the mistake of supposing that he had merely to express the ideas of outsiders in simple terms, and their extravagance would be so apparent as...
MR. EDITOR: I heartily agree with your contributor upon the main points of his "Religion in Harvard." I need to apologize to you for saying the same things over again, and will urge as my excuse the irony which he employed, and which some seem inclined to take in good...
Harvard College, in its printed advertisement, published in the Atlantic some time since, said: "The University respects, and does not seek to influence, the religious opinions of its students." To this it adheres. The topic of religion is not introduced in the College exercises except when the subject necessarily suggests...
But the influence of the College will be best ascertained if we look at the religious life of the students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish...