Word: resort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...
...Harvard Club of New York has increased the proportion of students from that city nearly six-fold since 1866. The large and zealous Harvard Club of San Francisco has greatly contributed to produce the increased resort of young Californians to Cambridge. I am sure that this club can influence young men from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin to go to Harvard. There are hundreds of colleges scattered over the country in which much faithful work is done, but which have not the resources in books, collections, and money which Harvard has accumulated in her 244 years of continuous life...
Finally, gentlemen, I am not urging you to an impossible work, but to one already well begun. The resort to Harvard grows more and more national, in spite of the extraordinary multiplication of colleges. It is today less of a Massachusetts university, more of a Middle State and Western State university, than it ever was before. This excellent result your zeal will further. That not only Harvard, but several other strong universities East and West, North and South, should have a truly national representation of the people of the United States, is an object which every patriot must earnestly desire...
...should be abated. So long as only students and their friends frequented the gallery of Memorial Hall, those who boarded there were disposed to raise no objection; when the public at large - even the very scum and rabble of society - come to regard it as a place of popular resort, something should at once be done to bar out all such interlopers. The propriety of allowing any visitors during meal-time is questionable; and persons unaccompanied by students should at all hazards be rigidly excluded. The Board of Directors have it in their power to take immediate steps toward remedying...
...this without the slightest visible effect on our neighbors in front. We were getting desperate. As a last resort, Will produced the time-honored simile of a bald-head and Heaven...