Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of writers and books what the real ethics of a question is." We heartily agree with him. It is much easier to sit in an easy chair, but if we sit at our desk - in our own room to - and discard the easy chair, isn't it rather hard on "'88" if we get the very pile of books out for consultation that "'88" wants...
...misunderstandings which often arise between students and faculty. It is often wiser for matters of a private character, but which on the other hand are coincident with the interests of both parties - faculty and students - to be generally settled by a conference of this kind between the committees, rather than have such measures come far action before the public...
...will not introduce them, if Yale does not; but we must first have satisfaction for the past, and security for the future. Yale must this year do as she last year forced Princeton to do; she must play on our grounds and with a Princeton referee, If she rather chooses to leave the championship in Princeton for another year, she will do what Princeton did not do last year. We may regret it, but cannot help...
...positions on the freshman eleven when regarded as a class - there are notable exceptions - have been such as to merit contempt of every Harvard man, but this last escapade is by far the most disgusting of all. On Saturday, it is expected to play the game with Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter-collegiate foot-ball arena, has made an round which we can all view with pride and satisfaction, but the freshman have done nothing but bring dishonor upon their class...
...world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking. Perhaps this was in some measure due to the place where the play was produced, in a theatre, in a great city, apart from the scenes of academic life. But enough has been said on this point, rather does so earnest and successful an attempt to reproduce one of the masterpieces of antiquity deserve unstinted praise...