Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much truth declare that the University ball nine and the University crew were organized under conditions disadvantageous and even unfair to them? This dispute, however, if carried further, would involve the question as to which athletic interest should be supported in preference to the others, and here we will say that we cheerfully yield on this point The foot-ball party are quite willing to make up their team from among the disappointed aspirants for the ball and boating laurels. What we do earnestly wish is to be allowed to play our little game all the year round...
Suppose, my friend, twoscore more years have passed over your head, and you are bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
...best classical music; for nothing so elevates and purifies a man's soul, and stimulates all that is noble and manly in us, as the music of Beethoven, Chopin, or Schumann. To all those who have been thus far apathetic to the charms of our Evening Readings, I would say that it is not now too late to change, and strongly advise all to begin and follow through the course which is just now beginning: Dante's "Vita Nuova" and "Divina Commedia...
...people, or perhaps we should rather say the subjects, of Harvard were divided very distinctly into two castes, the more numerous of which considered the other as inferior to it. The upper caste was divided into three classes, though what the distinctions between them were is unknown...
...above all, should we hate the man who lies in his actions. Words can be contradicted and disproved, but the subtle influence of deeds is far less easily overcome. There is, I grieve to say, a class of students at Harvard whose every act is a lie; and, hard as the duty is, it is the duty of every pure-minded man to hate them, to shake the dust of their rooms from his feet, and to use all his power to crush them out of existence...