Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Harvard Indifference in Harvard Advocate, LX, 97 et seq. (December 19, 1895); Charles J. Bonaparte, A Serious Question in Harvard Graduates' Magazine, I, 350-352 (April, 1893); William De Witt Hyde, The Policy of the Small College, in Educational Review, II, 313 et seq. (November, 1891); George Santayana, A Glimpse of Yale, in Harvard Monthly, XV, 94 (December...
...subject of Professor Baker's address this evening has a serious interest for Harvard men, one which should appeal strongly to every member of the University. The repeated successes which have been won upon the platform in our contests with other colleges, though gratifying to our pride as students of Harvard may possibly have an injurious effect on the standards of ability which we set before us. Debating as it is known today has hardly passed its infancy. Our graduates of the older generation tell us of the almost total lack, in their time, of facilities for acquiring skill...
...explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs...
...Princeton system, by which men are put on their honor and sign a pledge was spoken of, but the serious objection is that men are apt to be noisy after they have finished and so disturb the others...
Every man in the class must sit, whether he gives an order or not, and is urged to do so as soon as possible, in order to avoid the serious difficulties which delays have caused in previous years...