Word: statements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that be the case, we see no reason why the color should be resigned by us. Union claims to have adopted the magenta in 1860, although no testimony to this effect is brought forward; and it is asserted that Harvard did not bear the magenta before 1871. This last statement is false. The magenta was recognized as Harvard's color early in the last decade. We have not yet been able to find out the exact date ; but in the race with Oxford, magenta was worn by Harvard as her established color. The first race rowed by Harvard with another...
...next place the statement is made, that a contribution of $3 from each student would cover the entire expense of a window. Call the average class 160 members. This contribution would amount to $480. For $480 a window could be purchased, and that is all. It would be no great improvement on the ones already in the Hall. Indeed, about the only difference between it and them would consist in the substitution of colored for white glass. At this price comparatively cheap glass would have to be used, and consequently all those beautiful effects obtained from the rich tints...
...have said that we are growing too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that "the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise." I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of "The Ignorance Club of Harvard College." This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...
...sympathy with the Greek in thought and in feeling. There never was a time before when writers of English in almost all departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this are found where, if this statement is correct, they should most frequently be found, - on the pages of those poets who distinctly embody the intellectual peculiarities of their time. One, among many illustrations of this truth, is that translations of Greek tragedies may be made, are made, which, while wonderfully literal, breathe in every line the peculiar, indefinable spirit...
...second part of the statement - that the present hour for dinner is not conducive to convenience - is so much a matter of personal opinion that it cannot be argued...