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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert or two, and a general reception at commencement complete the list of the social attractions at the "Hamp." No complaint is more commonly made in college than the complaint that class spirit is dying out. And there is much to support this belief. True, the lower classes manifest their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class spirtit such as exists to-day in many colleges, is a thing of the past at Amherst. And this change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Life at Amherst. | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

...suggestion that the beaten college should support its sister, financially and otherwise, is especially good. Nothing could be better to foster a spirit of good fellowship between Harvard and Yale, which is sadly lacking. There is a great deal of unnecessary feeling between the colleges, which tends to estrange the students from each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

...desire to see philosophy put on a modern scientific basis, and in his anxiety to crush out agnosticism, Mr. Abbot seems to be perfectly ready to sacrifice the whole field of pure metaphysics. The essay would have been much more valuable if the writer had stopped to support such statements as that the "Kantian principle on which agnosticism rsts is itself a sophism." We are asked to take rather too much on faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

...plea in behalf of our sister paper. And at the same time we wish to speak a word for ourselves. The CRIMSON is still in need of a great many more subscriptions. There seems to be a falling off in our college spirit, and especially so as regards the support of our college papers. Every man should feel it his duty to take both the CRIMSON and the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/2/1887 | See Source »

...higher branches of learning. Besides Harvard is abundantly able and willing to assist in a pecuniary way all those whose means are inadequate to an attendance here unless assistance is rendered them; and it has been Harvard's boast that no faithful student need leave college for lack of support and assistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/26/1887 | See Source »

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