Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened, so that a man of moderate means with a chum can take any room in the Yard he wishes. But, notwithstanding such arguments, a feeling is beginning to prevail, more widely now than for some years past, that it is desirable to room alone. Possibly the feeling has always existed, but is become noticeable now, as until lately it was almost impracticable to secure a single room. Within a year or two the rule has been made that...
...also the editors in publishing decided that college opinion would not be harsh in criticising such ideas. And when so many as are the editors and writers agree in the policy of praising study, it is not too much to say that a more studious feeling is beginning to prevail at Harvard than has for many years back existed...
That the feeling now prevailing in regard to study is a desirable one, no one can deny. That such a feeling would prevail was used to support the adoption of the elective system; that such a feeling does prevail, so soon after its introduction, is weighty testimony in its favor...
...grounds for much dissatisfaction among non-members, which is perhaps the case with all good societies and in all colleges. Here, at Harvard, we don't profess to understand much about the working of society affairs in other colleges, and perhaps cannot duly appreciate the animosity which seems to prevail so particularly against the "Bones." But for the perpetrators of the flag business our mildest name would be ungentlemanly soreheads...
...would not be quoted by any religious weekly whatsoever as asserting that unbelief and immorality prevail at Harvard. Nor do I believe that any other college offers greater security against the evils I have mentioned. And for this it is not the government of our colleges which is mainly responsible. Could the thousand young men now studying at Cambridge be placed in business or other occupation, apart from old friends and old restrictions, which it would be ridiculous for a parietal committee to adopt, no better results could reasonably be expected. The fault lies elsewhere; it is in the fact...