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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate's catalogue will be issued shortly. A copy will be sent to every past editor...
...persuasion and of advising. As a science, it is not an accident. It is the deadwood in the tree of life, without which the tree could not stand. The study of history is necessary for that of law, because one cannot understand the present without a knowledge of the past...
...ideal. In part, to be sure, she does fulfill this calling; but in part she fails. As the oldest college of our country, more sentiment and tradition has gathered around her name, than around any other. She has come down to us as a heroine out of the past. For two centuries and a half she has stood for something of the greatest worth; and we believe that in time to come she will be the same...
However, all great reforms are directly attended with immediate disadvantages for some past society and the present generation of Harvard men must be contented with their unfair opportunities and look forward with satisfaction to the higher development of the coming generation. Harvard's radical move must gradually elevate the schools, but only very gradually can this be done, for, according to Mill "reform even of governments and churches is not so slow as that of schools." - The only means to this end is to increase the difficulties for admission from year to year, and let us hope that President Eliot...
...ideal exponent of the lighter side of student life, if well conducted; could not fall to be a greater success than either the "Advocate" or the "Lampoon" now are, and a greater credit to the editors. The process of evolution here has been going on so steadily within the past few years, that the time does not seem far distant when we shall see at Harvard those papers, occupying distinct fields, the CRIMSON, a daily, the "Monthly, for our sober, steadfast thought, and a "Lampoon-Advocate" for our lighter moments...