Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number which is timely and worthy of consideration. Civil service reform is attracting much attention in political life at present, and with justice. It is the important question of the day. College men, and we refer particularly to Harvard undergraduates, have little or no real knowledge of the right and wrong of the matter, and the Advocate's suggestion of a course of lectures on the subject by prominent civil service reformers, is very pertinent. Cannot the authorities of the college, or some one of our energetic societies, take the matter up and give us a course of interesting...
...Right jollily does the editor drag the burrs out of the exchange basket and examine the contents in search of his favorite food, and much does he find. But the poorest picking is, on the whole, in the Harvard papers - the Advocate and the Lampoon. The Crimson hardly comes under the head of a literary production, but as a daily, is one of two, and only two, in the college sense of the word. The Advocate is the truest literary production of college journalism in our exchange basket. A little heavy for a b1-weekly, perhaps, but when...
...hearty co-operation on the part of the students. The present management is able, energetic, and conscientious, so that no one need fear that what he subscribes will be wasted, or spent in any but the most desirable and effective way. Let the new year be begun in the right spirit, with a hearty response from every man in college to the calls for support of our worthy athletic organizations. Let us put the Boat Club on a sound financial basis at once, and with its present officers we may be sure that it will so remain...
...serious matter and ought not to be pushed through in an irregular manner. There is already a good deal of harsh feeling in the college which can only be settled by allowing the up per class elevens to elect the captain for the ensuing year, as is their natural right...
...cause; one, therefore, which demands of every youth his support, and concerning which there cannot be two sides in the thoughts and feelings of enlightened rational and moral men. There may be, of course, difference of judgment in regard to specific measures; but there can be no difference among right-minded men in regard to the essential principles on which the cause rests...