Word: revolt
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...piece of fiction and three book-notices, with the editorial, complete the issue. The story is a lively picture of the revolt against compulsory College Commons in 1806, and is readable, if not entirely convincing. The editorial gives a friendly welcome to the new President, and the reviews are appreciative notices of books by Professor Royce, Professor Minot, and Mr. W. P. Eaton...
...observe it might have passed by un-noticed. The very spirit in which it was received, however, proves that our lack of old traditions is not due to anything fundamentally opposed to them in the nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing many of the seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when...
...look out upon the Delta, a vision of the College which bears his name, and interprets for us the thoughts of the Founder with respect both to the past and to the future. He well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment in his heart." I will not speak...
Both Turkey and Great Britain are trying to absorb independent Arabia and the Bedoin tribes. Turkey at the same time is killing Arabian commerce by her misrule, and high tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem...
First editions of Dryden's "Dramatick poesie," Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year," Shelley's "The Revolt of Islam," and "Rosalind and Helen." The latter is a presentation copy from Shelley to Leigh Hunt...