Word: statemente
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...perhaps our condemnation was too sweeping. We had in mind at the time some glaring examples of inefficient writing and poor taste, and in fact we illustrated our remarks by references to these, so that every one might see we had special cases before us to which our general statements applied. But the Westminster Monthly, a paper far superior to many more pretentious issues from Colleges of larger size and wider fame, essays a defence. While thankful to the editors for their charity towards us, we must deprecate that spirit which leads to a seeming insinuation that the reason...
...members of the smaller and distant colleges, who, confident in the piety of their own white-chokered Faculties, and a little puffed up, perhaps, by an unusually successful prayer-meeting, exclaim with a pious shudder at the irreligion of Harvard. The second article in the Magenta is a comforting statement of our religious tendencies, chiefly resting for support upon the societies in College which represent the various denominations. Without attempting to discuss the value of such testimony, it may be mentioned that of one of these societies the members number over sixty, and yet it has been often found difficult...
...other arrangement made for this year. It is hardly possible that the definition of "undergraduate," made at a Boating Convention for university crews, can have been so stretched as to apply to a Freshman nine, yet we can see no other ground for their late action. Perhaps the statement in the Courant is misunderstood; if so, we should like to have it explained. In accordance with the action as understood here, at a recent meeting our Freshmen voted to challenge the Yale Academics alone. This will bring matters to an understanding immediately...
...following statement of facts ought to destroy any bad impression caused by the article in the last Magenta. The writer of that article made the mistake of supposing that he had merely to express the ideas of outsiders in simple terms, and their extravagance would be so apparent as to make elaborate refutation unnecessary; hence he gave a concise summary of the arguments that time and again have been used against Harvard by false critics...
...ordinary sectarian "University"; that not a few leave college, as they entered it, with a firm belief in total depravity and the atonement;-must we not in candor admit that those who escape are exceptions to the rule, resist the tendency of the place? Such sophistry needs merely concise statement to be exposed in hideous nakedness...