Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other years, and large subscriptions can be more easily made. Other classes are assessed less, the Seniors least of all, because the expenses of a college course increase as one advances. We are sure that one moment's thought will convince every Freshman that he ought to do his share in supporting the University Crew by subscribing liberally towards paying its expenses...
...this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs, and which, though natural in the lower classes, should speedily be overcome by men who are beginning to have a share in decisions upon questions of national interest, involving alike their honor, their safety, and their property. The Freshman, naturally shy about speaking before his unknown classmates, thinks that the easiest way will be to put all his interests in the hands of an executive committee, whose only relation with him henceforth...
...Bible, be visited upon his children. It is reasonable to suppose that a portion of that which is now yours by paternal grace, will in time be yours by inalienable right. But even if you be the first-born, you have a right to expect only your own share; and before concluding that your inheritance will place you beyond the reach of want, you must divide the ancestral income by the number - somewhere between two and ten - of your brothers and sisters, and then turn to statistics and see how much it costs to support a family. If the discrepancy...
...whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive a lion's share of the harvest...
...this vacation, of a telescope potent over both distance and intervening objects, we must content ourselves with what our eyes may show us. Probably many do not realize what a fund of pleasure can be obtained by the unobtrusive use of the eyes, joined to an average share of imagination. To pass through Boston Common, even, on a pleasant, summer evening about dusk, when so many hearts are lost and won, will give an observing man much food for reflection on the proportion maintained between the three factors,-the social status of the lovers, the strength of their affection...