Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beauty in authors who receive high praise. Tastes differ, and some of these authors may in themselves be unfitted for us. Another disturbing influence is that caused by critical students of the history of literature, (especially Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This experience comes to every...
...Harvard freshman foot-ball team refused to come down, the reason given being that the games had been played here so often previously. So that in order to have a game our team was obliged to play at Cambridge. A decidedly shabby performance, by the way, was gone through with by the Harvard management in regard to the financial part of this game. It seems that in arranging for the game at Cambridge a telegram was sent promising one half the receipts to our eleven, and also promising to pay one-half their expenses to Cambridge. When it came time...
...mind. One might go farther, and say without much fear of contradiction that a sound body is indispensable to a sound mind. But, regardless of the exact value that may be placed upon a strong and healthy body, it will scarcely be denied that its possession is often a matter of great convenience. Why, then, should not attention be given to physical training during the same years that are given to mental training? Why is not a certain portion of a college student's day devoted profitably to athletic exercise, not only as a relaxation from the work...
These changes cannot fail to increase the popularity of this department among students who feel that a systematic course of instruction in their own literature is absolutely necessary for every student of Harvard. Hither to the charge against our colleges has often been that they confine themselves to given lines of instruction, and that they never go beyond these lines. The largest acquaintance with the literature of their own times and own language that many work of the courses and from their daily newspaper and magazine reading. Thorough instruction in literature, treating the masterpieces of their languages as worthy...
...lecturer often wondered that educated men, fully posted on the immensity of the evils of alcohol, should yet remain silent. Learned lectures, replete with statistics, are delivered on the "gigantic evils of the railroad system." Controversy is worn out in the question whether Greek and Latin shall form a necessary part of a liberal education; some even find time to set forth the "littleness, weakness, baseness of base-ball;" hut on that other question concerning a subject which is of immeasurably more importance than all the others combined, we have only silence, and a good deal...