Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this custom has been abandoned, and though the treasurers send out bills to the men in training, and though in some cases men have paid as formerly, the last year it has been common to leave these bills unpaid. It is the duty of the committee to make this statement. If public segment and the governments of the organizations sanction the present custom, it undoubtedly will soon become settled...
...same end could be attained by a less realistic means. Two subjects are discussed under the Topics of the Day. The first contains facts about the religious tendencies of Harvard that will be granted by every one who is acquainted with the inner workings of the University. Such a statement does much to weaken the prejudices of skeptical outsiders. "Advice to Sophomores" is the second article. Every sophomore would do himself a service by a careful perusal of this homily. "His First Experience" is an unpretentious detective reminiscence supposed to be narrated by an inspector. "How do You Live...
...article in the North American Review of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard," is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
...have built in their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would still be one of the gravest of falsehoods: it would be a falsehood because it is meant to convey the impression abroad that the whole system...
...paper entitled "The Religious Crisis," written by "One of the Committee, " is an interesting review of the experiments in religious work tried by the undergraduates last winter. It is a semi-official statement of the motives which led to the movement among the students which culminated in the series of meetings held at the Globe Theatre. The writer gives an estimate of the result of those meetings, an estimate in our opinion perfectly just. He urges either that the meetings be repeated under somewhat different plans, or that some more practical scheme of work be suggested immediately. The writer...