Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...believe that Harvard more than any other college offers means for the most liberal and widest culture, the opinion stated above will seem an erroneous one. We have been accustomed to regard our college as offering to its students the best of advantages, and as initiating one so deeply in the mysteries of a department which he intends to follow as a specialty, that, when brought into competition with students from other colleges, he would at the start have such an advantage as to be able to quickly outstrip his competitors. The facts, however, seem to belie such a belief...
...which the College was founded. One would think, from a priori reasons, that the representatives of a college would be its leading scholars. From experience, however, we know that such is not the case. And the consequence is, that instead of being a leader in discovery, invention, and opinion, the representative Harvard graduate of to-day is, as a general thing, a representative merely of a slight amount of culture and the most well-bred traits. He is able to pass a fair opinion in literature, art, and occasionally in science, but is far from being a forerunner in progressive...
...reflecting man would pronounce at once that such a state of opinion ought not to exist in "the foremost college in America." He would question whether the working man does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too persistent and unhealthy devotion to study, is not, on the whole, more worthy of admiration and respect than the "swell." I suspect that much of our affected contempt for a "dig" is a result of indolence. It is very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding...
...this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell against liberal advantages. Harvard men are now judged in the outside world by their catalogue and list of electives; and their agreeable manners serve to heighten the favorable impression. But in time the artificiality and unfitness for real life of most Harvard men will be discovered...
...honor of the College we are sorry to be obliged to refer, in any way, to the meeting of the Senior class on Wednesday evening. Of the officers elected it is of course none of our business to express an opinion. But in our last issue we expressed a hope that the meeting would be distinguished by the absence of those traits which have predominated too much in the past, and that the qualifications required of candidates for office would have been their fitness for the duties expected to devolve upon them, rather than their connection or non-connection with...