Word: shade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult to give an accurate statement of the religious condition of Harvard University. Perhaps the recent account of the matter, which makes Harvard's religious condition about that of the world outside, is nearly correct. The faculty includes men of every shade of belief from the Agnostic and Pantheist to the Methodist and Baptist. And nearly the same thing might be said of the students, though I should be inclined to give credit to the report which represents the number of students from evangelical homes as continually increasing. The connection between teachers and students is much less close than...
...United States. Harvard men are always full of suggestions on the reform of the conduct of government, but on the question of temperance they are decidedly shrinking, and yet the question of temperance is by far the most important economical question of the day, throwing completely into the shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil service. Intemperance is the greatest evil in existence as regards society and the state. It is the chief obstacle to the extermination of ignorance and pauperism. The question of temperance is no namby-pamby affair, no goody goody subject...
There is a shade of romance somewhere in the guileless soul of the undergraduate, a longing for the unattainable, perhaps, which suddenly develops itself at the approach of the opera season in particular; this was recognized by the "powers that be," and, with the readiness to supply all actual needs which characterizes all their actions, this branch of the college was founded and liberally endowed...
...which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman wishes could apply...
...regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every shade of belief to spend their time ostensibly given them for personal religious culture in listening to expositions of the tenets of that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter...