Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of Harvard as are her students, we realize the responsibility which rests upon our shoulders. We wish the magazine to stand or fall on its merits alone. In a sincere belief as to the necessity and usefulness of the Literary Monthly, we ask the cordial sympathy and hearty support of every student...
Boston University, although our nearest neighbor, is as little known to the students of Harvard as many of our Western colleges. The university is situated in the heart of Boston, and this, perhaps, is one reason why so little is heard of it among the students. It does not support a crew or a nine, and it was only last year that a 'Varsity eleven was selected. There are many departments in the university which are fully as flourishing as the School of Liberal Arts, the collegiate department. It has a large medical school, one of the first law schools...
...England. These obnoxious restrictions were among the causes of the Revolution. It was the mechanical genius and enterprise of the colonists and their geographical situation which caused this prosperity. A tariff, however, tends to destroy the self-reliance of the manufacturer, and teaches him to depend on the support of the government, where he should depend on his own abilities. This is the most dangerous and demoralizing effect of a system of high tariff. A tariff forces capital into those occupations where it would not naturally go, and where the natural advantage is relatively small, and thus the condition...
...observances." Again many of the real reasons why the students desire the abolition of the attendance are unworthy of attention. Some students do not care to have their morning slumbers interrupted, others wish to be able to reduce their attendance at Cambridge to a minimum. It is advanced in support of retaining the prayers, that they are the only provision in the college for express religious instruction, and the only mode in which it can be obtained, except in the classes of the Divinity School. Moreover, the service is held in "a well warmed chapel," and its duration is from...
...members from eighty-eight, and earnestly desires more. Now that the time for riding has come, all lovers of the sport who appreciate a lively run through a pleasant country with a crowd of jolly companions, ought to join the club for their own sakes, if not to support the club. The admission fee to the club is only three dollars, and the member has the satisfaction of knowing that he personally is going to derive pleasure from his contribution, and that his money is not going to an organization in which he has only a general interest...