Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh Lee, have materially altered our feelings towards the South. The Nation's language was, therefore, the language of 1874, prompted by feeling rather than by reason, as it confesses. Now, in 1876, feeling as well as reason would sustain it in speaking otherwise...
...injurious. Social engagements, and the force of habit, which is too deeply rooted to be broken up in two months, prevent them from going to bed before midnight. And if prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then, that students interested in the matter should start...
There is more reason for retaining the Freshman race. It serves as a school for future University men, and creates usually a healthy interest in boating among the Freshmen. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether class races and class crews are not incongruous with the present boating-system at Harvard, and whether the same material for University oars could not be worked up by club races, while the money necessary for the support of the Freshman crew could be given to the 'Varsity...
...regards prizes, there is no reason why unostentatious mementos of victory should not be given to the victors. There is nothing ungentlemanly in receiving them, provided they are given by the colleges, not by hotel proprietors nor hack-drivers...
...responsibility of these officers to the Association. The annual election of officers, from a mistaken but widespread idea that any government of students will be overruled by the influence of the President or the Corporation, is not viewed as an event of any importance, and we have therefore great reason to congratulate ourselves on our good fortune in obtaining such efficient officers. Once elected, those officers are, in an official capacity, completely separated from their fellow-boarders; they become absolute, as regards these latter, though they are fettered in some most important respects by the restrictions which the Corporation...