Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard student is popularly supposed to be a handsome, well-dressed, and particularly self-indulgent Fakir. Like Lady Teazle, I admit all the rest, but beg leave most emphatically to deny the Fakir; and would earnestly question whether this indifference be not the result of our now superficial ideas and lack of special application. It is also true that, as we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to consider "the world" our estimate of the real world...
...general among our contributors. As instruction is now given to two of the classes, and as opportunities for practice in the various electives are quite numerous, we imagine that the authorities intend to satisfy this desire as fully as possible, and we therefore do not print the article in question. But we take advantage of the opportunity to propose once more the establishment of a general club, similar to the unions of Oxford and Cambridge, about which our readers will find full particulars in the back numbers of the Crimson. There can be no better time than the present...
...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...
...barren of suggestions looking toward a higher state of things, he is approaching the region of facts where it behooves one to tread cautiously. Does he recognize no fixed principle of the Nation in regard to hard money and resumption? I would ask, in regard to the Southern question, who first suggested the ideas that were afterwards embodied in the bill that passed Congress? I would ask, who pointed out the nature of the difficulty in regard to the grangers and railroads? The views lately propounded by C. F. Adams, Jr., as to the over-production of railroads...
Occasion was taken, en passant, to revile that serviceable sheet, the Boston Herald. I have no wish to join issue upon every particular statement of the article in question, but it strikes me that in this case, as in the other, injustice is done to a popular favorite. As a news-teller the Herald is unequalled in Boston, and certain editorials occur to me that would do credit to any paper. I might refer to one entitled "An Oriental Lesson," in a Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest...