Word: presses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much has been said, and on the whole so ill said, in the College and Boston press, about the refusal of Sanders Theatre to the Harvard Union, that I desire to state the facts. It is not true that the Faculty were arbitrary and unjust, the Faculty had nothing to do with it. It is not true that Republican meetings are allowed, and Democratic forbidden. The Corporation were willing that the Union should occupy any other hall in the Yard or elsewhere, for speakers from both parties. The Union has been granted the use of a College hall...
...themselves at least decently, even if they possessed in themselves no leaven of gentlemanliness. That they did not, is a disgrace rather to the schools which sent them here, than to Harvard College. But the latter is compelled to undergo all the reproach. It is now time for the press generally to magnify and distort the actual occurrences, which need no misrepresentation in order to be condemned. The blame belongs to the Freshman Class alone; they can best alone for their folly by preventing a like occurrence...
...even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand by my dear one in the barn-yard, repeating 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' while she milks the bosky cows. Then in the fall I will leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing about her daily task; finally she will die and be laid away in the cold earth, while a stranger from the city (that...
...general cries of grievance in the College press do not include a protest against an evil which is in every one's mouth from the beginning to the end of the year. I refer to the schedule of prices at the University Bookstore...
...long time the College press has demanded that the Library be open Sundays, and we are glad to hear that their appeal has been heard at last. The Library next fall will be thrown open for the use of students on Sunday afternoons. We wish it might be opened next Sunday, but there is so little time remaining that it is scarcely worth the trouble. This will certainly prove a great convenience, not only to the hard student, but also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult...