Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom of providing series of evening readings is yearly gaining strength at Harvard. It is an unquestioned fact that these series enable a person to make himself acquainted with the works of writers whom he would never otherwise find time to study at least during his college course. The good we derive from these readings if of course somewhat superficial; it could not be otherwise, when such a wide field is covered. Superficial knowledge, however, is far better, in many cases, than no knowledge...
...down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...
...true. The majority of the freshmen whom I have known in the last seventeen years have been, at entrance, quite deficient in serious aims. But from this fact I draw a conclusion quite opposite to the one suggested. It is systematized election, which these boys need. Prescription says, "This person is unfit to choose keep him so;" laissez-faire says, "If he is unfit to choose let him perish;" but a watchful elective system must say, "Granting him to be unfit, if he is not spoiled, I will fit him." At Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed...
...perhaps alone responsible, and the article may have been written under a misapprehension of the facts, but if the author is at present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself...
...student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college, shall make use of any distilled spirits or of any such mixed drinks as punch or flip, in entertaining one another or strangers." Students were also forbidden to have liquors in their rooms, cut "lead off from Old College," or to make "tumultuous...