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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powerless to insult him in every way. Such an amusement from some distorted way of looking at it was held quite worthy of gentlemen. So, looking back, it seems indeed to be a source of congratulation to the college that all such performances are banished to the past. Nor has this change taken place here alone. It is going on in nearly every college, and as the tendencies of "hazing" are brought more clearly to light, it must of necessity be put aside with all its childish accompaniments...
...free choice among the teachers of the same subject, without reference to their position as ordinary or extraordinary professors, or as private docents. The students are, in fact, free to acquire any part of their instruction from books ; it is highly desirable that the works of great men of past times should form an essential part of study...
...other respects also the year opens brightly for the Harvard student. With a record of victories, brilliant and complete, made by its crews, with the record made in the past year in general athletics, in tennis and in lacrosse, the college can reasonably afford to be well satisfied. The successes of the past will demand new successes in the future. A healthy feeling of confidence and hope must succeed the feeling of despondency that has often prevailed in the college. Thus with classes larger than ever before and with the cheerful spirit inspired by success, all those interests which occupy...
...forms of college sports which formerly flourished under the name of hazing. The tone of student opinion at Harvard we believe is not particularly indifferent, but is energetic and full of enthusiasm. As the college itself has broadened and become more liberal so has the student mind. Within the past year we have seen a large advance in this direction on both sides. With the signs which accompany the beginning of the present term we may look for a far greater advance in the year to come...
...state that no college daily at Harvard has as yet succeeded in clearing expenses at the end of any year's publication. From this fact we leave the college to draw its own inferences as to the kind and degree of support which it has given in the past to the HERALD and its predecessor. We mention this in the belief that the fact requires but to be stated to find its remedy at the hands of the college. Harvard at all times requires the best of everything and is disposed to be critical if it does not receive...