Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article on "The Choice of Electives by Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell, opens the number. In it the writer has stated some very valuable propositions which deserve much more serious consideration than the random talk on this subject which has been flooding the magazines all over the country. Mr. Lowell's advice about the work in preparation for the professions well deserves attention of those to whom it applies...
About 200 men heard Prof. Drummond's talk in Sever 11 last evening. The talk lasted for about forty-five minutes and was intensely interesting. The lecturer said that he wished me to take religion on a firm basis and not make it an emotional matter. Such religion does not last. If the grand religion of Christ is put before men in the right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled...
...candidates were not present. It is likely that they believe their chances so good that they need not play on Saturdays unless so inclined. We do not say that this was the cause of their absence. It is only likely that it was the cause. There has been much talk about Harvard's good prospects this year, but if this kind of business continues athletics will do their best to find a lower level than the one they now occupy. No doubt such a task would be difficult but it is within the range of possibility. Many may say that...
Columbia sophomores have not created any disturbance this year, as has been the custom in former years, and there is some talk among them of abolishing the annual cane rush. The sophomores claim that they can afford to abolish the custom, as they succeeded in vanquishing '89 in the several rushes last year...
...graduate article, a dramatic, powerfully written and most instructive dialogue by Mr. Donaldson, is genuinely original, and certainly a perfect description of how men talk, if not, thank heaven, of the way women act. Follow a poem by Mr. De Wolf, Jr. one line of which might be altered for the better: it would read more effectively...