Word: right
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most amusing statement of all is that the difference between Harvard and Yale is shown by the fact that the treasure of Harvard is Long-fellow, whereas that of Yale is the geologist, Dr. Dana. We wish that Mr. Gross was right, but the fact is that Longfellow is a graduate of Bowdoin...
Information as to the reason why you have received postal cards from the Assistant Secretary may be had in University Hall. Go up two flights, and walk right in, without knocking...
...another column will be found an abstract of the discussion which was carried on in the Nation this summer in relation to the Divinity School. We cannot but think that the ground taken by the Nation is the right one, and that it was a mistake for President Eliot to come forward so prominently and solicit subscriptions for the school. We are sure that President Eliot, after having done so much to give Harvard a national position, would not intentionally take any step to diminish its claim to that position; but it certainly seems to us that his solicitation...
...second reason is one which would be expected to be convincing enough to any gentleman in the Faculty, and, indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every...
Where two questions of honesty, justice, and right are concerned, it is not the time to speak of the advisability of turning off men who honestly have done their duties as scouts, in some cases, for twenty-five years; or of forcing us to discharge trusted servants whom we have employed for three years, and to subject ourselves to what is probably to be irresponsible impudence, and necessarily irresponsible negligence...