Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: I have no doubt but that your readers have had a surfeit of Memorial, but there is one suggestion that I should like to make. It will probably seem to many decidedly unconservative, and many will perhaps frown upon it as nonsensical. What I propose is nothing less than that ale or beer be allowed at dinner. The arguments usually advanced against the introduction of this healthy drink at Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess...
...enters it, it would become a true commons, where would resort the most of the men in college, to pass what would become the pleasantest hour of the day. I trust that you will give this communication a place in your columns, although I confess that it may seem very much of an innovation which I advocate. Yours...
...hall dinner; but that in most colleges is a comfortable, sustaining meal, washed down by some of the finest ale in England. The bad fare at Harvard has the effect of sending many students into Boston a great deal more than is desirable, for, astounding as it may seem, Cambridge, a town of sixty thousand inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied...
...ventilation of the reading-room of the library has been execrable of late, despite the fact that the warm, pleasant weather outside gives no excuse for such over-careful confinement of the air. It would seem as if enough had been said on this subject already to effect a reform, but the generous advice seems to have made so little impression on the "janitorial" authorities of that building that we can hardly conceive of more insane stupidity on their part or more wilful inattention to the desires of the frequenters of the reading-room...
...other colleges miscellaneous lectures, readings and concerts throughout the year seem to have continual popularity and success. But we seem to be hardly able to muster energy enough to make a single course and some few occasional lectures a success. It is true that in certain subjects voluntary lectures are always popular at Harvard. Thus Dr. Sargent's and Dr. James' courses always secure satisfactory audiences; perhaps for the reason that they treat of thoroughly practical and important subjects, and in this respect afford a certain relief to routine labor in more abstruse branches. The lectures of the Natural History...