Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...incompetence of judges at the previous winter meetings of the H. A. A. may well be rejoiced at the appearance of the new rules. But though the Executive Committee are to be commended for doing now what ought to have been done five years ago, it was, to say the least, a great mistake that the rules, announced a year ago, were not published until within a few days of the first meeting. For instance, owing to the lateness at which the rules appeared, a bar such as is requisite for carrying out fully the "Fence Rules" adopted could...
...like that of a University Crew, involves such delicate diplomacy that no one ought to be greatly surprised by this action, though few, it is to be hoped, will attempt to justify it. But the authoritative position assumed by those members of the "Quartette" above alluded to, betrays, to say the least, an ungenerous disposition...
...letters from an American now living in China have appeared in the Boston Advertiser. The writer advocates the establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek...
...attainment - is often present when the time and means needed are wanting to men best fitted by natural endowment to use such an acquisition to the greatest general good. To such men our donors turn, asking them to aid in extending the beneficent influences of education. "We have means," say they, "you have the natural endowments; together we can accomplish what we have most at heart, singly we must all fail." Is assistance given in this spirit and with this intent an alms? Most decidedly, No! It is rather a mutual helping toward a common end. Or, on the part...
...insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency in that mournful direction, and that the natural obstacles which the managers have to contend against should not be unnecessarily increased by one jot or tittle. Alluding to one of the lesser of these obstacles, I may say that, spite of all which can be done to prevent it, ''the famine which raged at New London on the 28th of last June" must to some extent rage there again on the 27th of next June. But who can paint the probable horrors of the case if the visitors...