Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Monthly has been criticised favorably from a literary point of view, it may be well to look at it from a purely sentimental standpoint. The Harvard Monthly is supposed to represent to a certain extent the feelings of the college, and if it cuts itself entirely loose from public sentiment it will perish. Now the writer maintains that there is no such morbid, pessimistic feeling among the students of Harvard, nor even among the literary men of the college, as this last number would seem to imply. In every issue, there has been...
...passion. The charming Scherzo was at times unevenly played. In the Raff quartet the slow movement was the most successfully rendered. The concert as a whole was a very enjoyable one. The Listemann quartet as now constituted, contains the best players that are to be had. Its only weak point is the second violinist, whose tone is at times uncertain and harsh. Their playing is such as to deserve much larger audiences...
...Presidency of Yale. The whole matter may be stated in a small sized nutshell. As long as Yale is governed in the religious spirit of its foundation, the progressive element of the Alumni will have no voice in the management. It is for the Corporation to decide this point; the Alumni can do nothing until such action is taken as will give them a voice in the deliberations of the Board. - Acta Columbiana...
...plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust character of their actual operation is so well known, that I will not stop here to prove the inadequacy of our present system of marking and ranking. But the very absurdity of the system will serve to point out the way to reform...
...young Indian has applied for admission at west Point; he is the first of his race who has ever done...