Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be seen by an item in another column, the Union has undertaken a canvass of the college on the preferences for Presidential candidates. While the result of a canvass of this sort cannot fail to be of interest as showing the relative personal popularity of the different candidates, it will indicate only in a very slight degree the political bias of the students. We think that most Harvard men vote more for principles than for men. Therefore the votes of most students will be determined largely by the actions of the two parties between this time and the time...
...present are English 7 and 8, given in alternate years. Now, many men who do not care enough about the subject to take either of these courses would be very willing to attend some voluntary lectures or conferences in addition to the sophomore lectures, which would be as sort of summary of the present instruction in English literature. The time is also especially favorable, for these lectures would probably be given during the four or five weeks, immediately after the spring recess. During this period, just before setting to work for the annuals, the student has many spare moments which...
...important these objections are we never comprehended until we read the article in question. The article which we consider such an important contribution to the literature of the subject has the seemingly innocent title "jottings from the journal of an A. B." But instead of this article being a sort of second edition of the lucubration's of Mr. Robert Grant's "Frivolous Girl," it is in reality a plaintive wail sent forth into the world by an almost despairing alumna-we suppose we must call her-of the Poughkeepsie institution of learning...
...class was arranged in their social order, or placed, to use the technical term, within six or nine months after entering college. The names of the students were written in order of precedence in a large German text, and placed in a conspicuous part of the college buttery (a sort of supplement to the commons) with the names of the other three classes. If a man was expelled, his name was taken off the list; if degraded, his name was put below that of a classmate who held a lower place in the social scale...
...journalists who today hold leading positions can be relied upon; certain it is that the men with collegiate education are appreciated, provided they do not try in the first day to edit the entire paper. Charles Dudley Warner, well known as an author and correspondent, says: "There is a sort of editorial ability, of facility, of force, that can only be acquired by practice, and in the newspaper office; no school can ever teach it; but the young editor who has a broad basis of general education, of information in history, political economy, the classics and polite literature...