Word: statement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...
...statement which involves Oriental notions of property in women, and at the same time a highly objectionable tendency to free love. We are next informed that "the maiden's glance invites advance," and after being suffered to advance, we are requested to "drink bliss like sparkling wine," - sentences upon which comment is needless. And, finally, the veracity of all ladies is impugned in the lines...
...About half of everything here is hypocritical to a more or less extent," is the "awful statement," to make which the Lampoon abandons its levity. If this statement be true, the Lampoon will not have lived in vain. If by these words we are brought to a realizing sense of our condition, our "comic college journal" will deserve all the good things that have been said of it, and may rest its reputation on this one point...
...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...
...body hypocrites in their relations to the overseers and examiners. To such a painful conclusion does the discovery of the Lampoon lead us. To disprove this final result of the charge would require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim to a clearer understanding of the motives which govern the actions of the "powers that...