Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition of mine, he is never surprised and never shocked. At the same time, while he recognizes the existence of all sorts of evils, great and small, there is no reason why he should take part in them. He ought to retain as firmly as ever the principles which guide his-own conduct; but he ought so far to conquer his aversion to any particular vices that whenever he meets a new man he can gauge his character...
...matter will rest here or not, but it is likely, if the Corporation are at all aware of the feeling among the members of the Association, that the request will be complied with; so a change involving the possibility of obtaining a more capable man, may now with some reason be hoped for. The Directors, we understand, although fully convinced that a change was necessary, hesitated somewhat before taking so decided a step. Their delay caused very general dissatisfaction and, considering the number of men who have left the Commons during the last week, it was certainly unfortunate...
...GRADUATE of Harvard, who has attained some eminence, recently expressed it as his opinion that graduates of Harvard were less likely to attain distinction in after life than those of the smaller colleges. As a reason for this belief he referred to the fact that no Harvard graduate of the last twenty-five classes had become distinguished in any profession. The cause of this seemed to him to be the largeness of our numbers and the consequent diminishing of the personal interest and influence of our instructors...
...chapel, . . . . the requirement has very little effect on his habits in those respects during after life. Neither of them would dream of requiring him, after he has graduated, to attend church, . . . . and very likely neither of them would think any the worse of him for not attending. What their reason may be for upholding the old theory of a college police, we do not know." The World closes by putting its views, for the benefit of Messrs. Emerson and Clarke, into the form of an interrogation which certainly ought to receive the consideration of these gentlemen and their colleagues...
...request tendered to Harvard by Trinity, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams, to aid in forming a new Boating Association, we cannot entertain. In leaving the American Association we signified as our reasons for so doing, that we wished to be represented in future by an eight-oared crew, and that the number of boats contesting decreased the pleasure and interest in the Association races. The objection to the new association is not only the inconvenient number of contesting boats, but they will row in sixes if not in fours. Had the persons who have the project in hand considered Harvard...