Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WITH the increasing interest in bicycles that has been displayed of late at Harvard, has arisen the question, Can we get up and sustain a bicycling club here? There has been some discussion on the subject, but at present we are not aware that any decision has been reached. It is our desire to see such a club formed that has led us to investigate to some extent the history of the vehicle. We have drawn largely for our information upon the American Bicycling Journal, a fortnightly publication started last December, which contains much news about this sport...
...management of our excellent Library. Why this should be so just when such great changes and improvements are making, whereas no one used to complain of the time honored inconveniences under the last regime, we cannot imagine: we hope it is because there is greater interest in the question; but even this reason cannot excuse such a superfluity of ingenious fault-finding. Doubtless its defects have been more evident this year to the mass of students, because they have used it so much more; but anybody who knows other libraries must be struck with the great convenience of ours...
...this question analogous to that of opening the Reading-Room Sunday; for there are many students whose work takes so much time during the week that Sunday is the only day when they can read the papers and magazines...
...with any ease in Upper Holden is wellnigh impossible; while the difficulty of showing engravings and illustrations to the class is very great. This leads to another idea. There is no reason why the recitation-rooms should not be made attractive. If rope-matting be out of the question, why should not appropriate pictures and maps, at least, be hung upon the walls? Diagrams, plans, and models in the scientific lecture-rooms would be a constant instruction through the eye; pictures and bronzes in the classical and fine arts rooms would be both useful and ornamental ; or at least they...
...former, or contempt for that of the latter. Ossip, finally, is wrong when he says that we "merely" say "popularity is the result of insincerity." Our words were : "Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness, or illegitimately from insincerity." But let us not among these subordinate blunders forget the vital question...