Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...
...weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is easy to see what caused our discomfiture in the former sport the structures of the faculty-but we can only attribute our want of success in foot-ball to "general adverse circumstances." We believe that our system is wrong in respect to training up foot-ball players and we trust that this year will find an improvement in the formation of class elevens, in the better quality of material at hand, and in more systematic and scientific coaching. Lacrosse seems to have fallen behind as a university sport and we would...
...frequently reminded by the complaints of our Yale contemporaries of the ruthless way in which colleges in general and Harvard and Yale in particular are treated by the press generally. Still we are forced to believe that our New Haven fellows suffer in this respect more than we do. this is no doubt owing in great degree to the fact that Harvard is near Boston, whose papers are influential and on the whole give very fair accounts of doings here, while Yale is represented at home by very provincial publications, and New York is just far enough away to allow...
...clock, the students began to come in and to take their seats. At the ends of the tables occupied by the various "Corps" sat their officers. (The "Corps," we may remark, correspond in a way to the Societies, secret or open, in American colleges, but are in every respect very different organizations.) These officers were conspicuous, in full evening dress, with sashes of various colored ribbon, white gauntlets, swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers and high boots...
...books referred to is beyond the ability of many students, it should be the duty of the college to furnish enough reference books to satisfy the demand in the large courses. Instructors for the welfare of their sections should notify the authorities of the needs of each course in respect to the number of books wanted, and a greater amount of attention should be given the matter...