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...impossible to deny that the action of the board in posting the names of these culprits is, in the strictest sense, justifiable. It is vain to try to find excuses for such conduct. But, nevertheless, we believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1897 | See Source »

...patent. With the sentiment-"the tree has been used so many years," I have no sympathy. I would not live in an old building, on that account, if I could live in a new one, with its numerous conveniences. Harvard has outgrown many things, and she can well outgrow some more. A tree exercise, with plenty of room for every one, would be a glorious innovation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/7/1897 | See Source »

...tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes from Harvard College. | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...eight similar rooms for the Palaeontological and Geological collections; and thirteen rooms devoted to the laboratories, lecture rooms, and library connected with the instruction given at the museum. The arrangement being such that whenever any departments, as, for instance, the geological and geographical, or the anatomical, or any other, outgrow their present quarters, room can be made for them, by extension of the building, for a long time to come, without interfering with the plans which have been carried out thus far." The able corps of workers attached to this department having now straightened the general plan will be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GROWTH OF THE AGASSIZ MUSEUM. | 1/14/1884 | See Source »

Willie Edouin will continue for another week at the Gaiety with his amusing "Dreams," which, however, is not as good a performance as it formerly was. Miss Atherton is getting just a little bit passee, but, as an Irish critic remarked, let us hope that she may outgrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS NEXT WEEK. | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

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