Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While we acknowledge all that is true, we protest against the sneer conveyed in the term "Harvard Morality...
...Monthly, necessarily very active, has kept all the best writers in college on the qui vive for the last four months. In addition to this, the Advocate's prizes have just brought forth a great deal of very powerful undergraduate work by authors as yet unconnected with any paper. For a large part of this enthusiasm in the study of our tongue the English department is distinctly responsible, and all praise must be given to them for their share in bringing this about. We would congratulate the Advocate on its success in this latest venture. It is a thing that...
...mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany...
...election of two members of the Conference Committee from the freshman class will take place to-day, (Tuesday) from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sever 10. Each freshman voting will write the name of his two candidates on a slip of paper, and sign his own name. Unsigned ballots will not be counted...
...short story, then, is often one of the best contributions to a college paper. But we should leave the misery and wretchedness, the supernatural and sombre, which we have not yet the power to describe, to those who have tasted bitterness and sorrow. And let us have more that is healthful and honest, told with simplicity and directness...