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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negatively critical, as Harvard men are, perhaps, too prone to be. It comes at first perhaps, from self consciousness and from a fear of ridicule. Be positive in your attitude, but not dogmatic. Plunge into the stream and learn to do things yourself. Intelligence and sympathy come with experience. Learn the lesson of doing the right that lies close at hand, from the brave action of Mr. Cable in publishing his two books "The Freedman's Case in Equity," and "The Silent South." His action in defying social ostracism for the sake of what he felt was the right should...
...degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should be represented only by the extremely talented or the hopelessly mediocre. While we feel that the clever men have, of late, been prone to claim rather more than their share of public attention, yet we are rather inclined to the belief that there is a place in modern literature which can be best filled by their writings. The fact that cleverness may fail to secure anything like a lasting reputation for its possessor...
...abroad, who would treat the subject in the impartial way in which socialism was treated by Rev. Mr. Brooks. Where is the Finance Club? A stirring lecture from some prominent financier or able business man would do much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer at college theorists and their ideas. Why not invite a representative of this school of the world to attempt to correct these ideas. Two lectures from different stand points on this very silver question would shake the two schools together, and might increase the respect...
...part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that...
...university has been more useful and beneficial to Harvard students than the Co-operative Society, and that therefore no society so much as it deserves the hearty co-operation of all who boast themselves Harvard men. Prices in Cambridge are high enough to-day to satisfy those most prone to expenditure; but they are by no means so high as they were several years ago, before the Co-operative Society was formed. Indeed, to this society Harvard men are now owing an economy in college expenses, which had been impossible before the society's existence. It is our unpleasant task...