Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pronounced, generous, and self-sacrificing." Few can doubt his words; for Harvard's reputation is the reputation of her alumni. They must be worth something in the world to make her worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must be for us an ideal. In part, to be sure, she does fulfill this calling; but in part she fails. As the oldest college of our country, more sentiment and tradition has gathered around her name, than around any other...
...right than for money and popularity. It would be better for her to make men out of a few, than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive for the highest...
...similar kind, which forces the water up into a high white tower next to the reservoir, called the high service water tower. The water here rises to a height of 45 feet above the level of the reservoir, and by this means, some of the houses in Cambridge which stand on very high ground and otherwise could not be provided with water, are kept fully supplied with it. It is a great pity that the Halls in the college yard do not derive any direct benefit from this splendid system of water supply, which cannot be surpassed, except...
...have since made Harvard a university, were beginning. Through change and storm she has remained steadfast. During her life one college paper and another has risen, flourished, and died; but she alone, among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly and worthily sets forth our best thought, she, like Harvard, shall reckon her age, not by scores of years, but by centuries...
...Lasell Leaves shows the state of the newspaper file at that institution "for the higher education of women:" "We hear that the only rival of the Harvard Lampoon now is the Police Gazette. We know little regarding the literary merits of the latter, but conclude its editors must stand as the head ranks of journalists to be compared to those of the Lampoon...