Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doubt what that motive is? Do not the numerous guide-books of Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, and Cincinnati speak for themselves? Their object was professedly, and properly enough, a financial speculation, and they met with as much success as they deserved. So long as their editor confined himself to such means, no Harvard student had any right to complain of his object. But when he sets himself up as a representative of the University, can we not question his right to do so? Heretofore young men have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness...
...Acta has published several papers on "Intercollegiate Slang," which are the most interesting contributions that we have seen in a college paper for some time. They will be finished next week, when we hope to speak of them at greater length...
...Montreal papers justly speak of Bacon as "the sagacious captain of the Harvard team," and of Winsor as "the Prince of drop-kicks...
...sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin...
Where two questions of honesty, justice, and right are concerned, it is not the time to speak of the advisability of turning off men who honestly have done their duties as scouts, in some cases, for twenty-five years; or of forcing us to discharge trusted servants whom we have employed for three years, and to subject ourselves to what is probably to be irresponsible impudence, and necessarily irresponsible negligence...