Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ATTENDED Colonel Higginson's lecture last week, and could not help being impressed by his remark, that he would never be satisfied with Harvard until it had an association for the purpose of training men in debate, and especially in the discussion of the live political questions of the day. There is certainly room here for such an association, and an abundance of first-class material from which to form it. All that is needed is a proper nucleus; and as the Crimson first broached the subject, it would be entirely appropriate for its editors to call a meeting...
...PEABODY defended Harvard at the Williams Alumni dinner in Boston. In reply to a remark that after the Freshman year there was no discipline at Harvard, Dr. Peabody said that in a prehistoric term he had been a tutor at Harvard, and that then, with about 200 students under them, the Faculty spent the greater part of their time in administering penal discipline. Now, with the number of students largely increased, such a case of discipline happens not once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being...