Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer in the Crimson tacitly assumes that the antiquity of the custom of class-tree exercises is the only argument in its favor. The intense radical spirit at present prevailing here, which says that all that is old in ways and beliefs is consequently wrong, and whatever new, right, would condemn this plea of antiquity as worse than none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which a Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features...
...Yale papers publish a great deal of matter in regard to the withdrawal of their college from the Rowing Association. They repeat the old arguments about the inconvenience of a race in which so many contestants participate, and they expressly declare that Yale's desire is to try her strength with Harvard, and with Harvard alone...
...German, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Music, and Natural History. Voluntary attendance at recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every possible variety of statistics being given. The result is summed up by saying that the average number of absences was two or three times as great as under the old system, though the influence of the change upon the average scholarship of the class was imperceptible either for good or evil. Those who obtained more than seventy-five per cent for the year's work averaged about two absences a week, and it is suggested that all who exceed that...
...have not seen much of the world, - I use this phrase in its literal sense, - a good photograph of a picture which has meaning will impress that meaning upon you. The sublime figures which the old artists of Italy have left behind them cannot fail to arouse wondering thoughts of the minds which could conceive such forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures...
...certainly voted very impulsively at our meeting, yet I think that it would prove better to reconsider a hasty action than to have gone on in the old routine without giving the subject proper consideration. It is still possible for the Class Committee, if they find a feeling strong enough to justify them, to call a meeting at which the question may be discussed with proper care, and a decision reached that is of more value than a momentary impulse in a blind copying of an old custom...