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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It strikes me that the gentleman who signs himself "Undergraduate" has a little exceeded his authority in writing such a communication as that which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. The writer, who is probably a freshman, should learn to respect the opinions of those who are older and better than himself. Harvard-or, for the matter of that, any college-can not afford to slight such opinions of her graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms...
...approval of many students who have acquired their notions of philosophy in Harvard. Mr. Abbot takes a very advanced position as regards the "reform of philosophy," and is perhaps led to expect too much from the regenerate system which is to be based purely on "scientific methods." Because the "older chemistry has yielded to the 'new chemistry,' and because natural history has undergone a fundamental revolution," we have no satisfactory ground for inferring, as Mr. Abbot does, that philosophy, "the organic unity of all human knowledge," is destined to undergo a like reform. In his desire to see philosophy...
...them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
This rather curious fact can easily be explained. Since the special students enjoy advantages as members of the University in regular standing, the older men prefer to enter as specials. There was a remarkable regularity in the ages of those entering this year, the average being about...
...numerous "records" which have been cut. Week after week some fresh achievement has been accomplished, and there is scarcely a single branch of athletics in which one or more have not been registered. This has been so in every description of contest, and has caused astonishment to the older generation of athletes, who have seen the performances, which they have been in the habit of thinking approached the marvellous, exceeded again and again...