Word: sway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school for the mental qualities of its students, but also for their religious morals? "Any college that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult to trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation for such positive statements. Undoubtedly the tendency of Harvard...
...RECEIVED," which are pasted on the wall over the narrow mantel-piece, and which indicate that there is to be found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway when she approaches the study table, where confusion, I am told, too often reigns. The chairs, also, rebel against being confined to their primitive use, and offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets, sacques and hats. The interested reader can obtain no adequate idea...
...turn to those college papers which have evidently "come to stay." Eighteen years ago the first number of the "Harvard Advocate appeared, and, from that time on, it has held a preeminent place among college publications. For seven years it held almost unlimited sway, but in 1873 there appeared a rival, the "Majenta," afterwards called the "Crimson." A friendly rivalry immediately sprang up between these two, and continued until the consolidation of the latter with the college daily in 1883. One of the youngest, and yet probably the best known college publication in existence, the "Harvard Lampoon," was first issued...
...yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm weather. We have in mind certain tennis courts on the north side of Jarvis that were almost ruined by the wear and tear of mucker ball games. The muckers hold full sway; they annoy us at every step, sometimes because we, forsooth, are in their way, and sometimes with malice aforethought...
...length. The faculty desired, it was stated, that Harvard should be on even terms with the colleges with which she competed. There were three courses open to the college. Either it should allow the present system to be stretched to its full limit and permit professionalism to gain complete sway over our sports, or it should secure the co-operation of other colleges and abolish all intercourse with professionals, or finally the college should withdraw completely from inter-collegiate contests. Prof. White expressed himself as being strongly in favor of continuing such contests. President Eliot stated that although some dozen...