Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these advantages, so admirable in every way, should not be able to do so. The subject of expense at Harvard has been accepted, and with good reason, during the past few months, but while much depends on the students themselves, there are other circumstances wholly beyond student control, which tend to aggravate the evil. One is the lack of proper dormitories, the other, a cause which has always been felt, the impossibility of getting good food at low prices. The fare at Memorial Hall is now very good. Consequently the hall is full. But many men have applied for admittance...
...return to the Puritan methods of life. We deplore the evils resulting from such a race, but see in them only the reflected influences of home life. Let Mr. Garrison carry his weapons into the home and there preach simplicity. Regulations by the government of the university can only tend to destroy the good relations at present existing between faculty and students, while they will be found wholly inadequate to remedy evils here existing in reality far from their source. We are loth to believe that a want of gentlemanliness is so far encouraged at Harvard that the poorer students...
...celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat will tend to relieve the monotony which must otherwise ensue from three successive days of uproar. The features of the undergraduate celebration will undoubtedly suit the exigencies of the case, and be such as will best allow the students to manifest their interest in this anniversary. We hope that much reference will be made...
...press at too late an hour to allow of any extensive investigation as to the opinion of the students concerning the unsuccessful attempt to build a bonfire in the yard. But we feel compelled to censure any proceeding upon the part of the students which will tend to endanger college property. There is little doubt but that the indiscriminate building of fires will have this result. The question which now remains to be solved is, whether the students are to have bon-fires at all. The fact that a celebration can be enthusiastic without a bon-fire, is well proved...
...standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude, and often abortive college compositions, but by a study, and a hard study at that, of the best works of the masters of English prose. Arnold, Shelley (letters), Fielding, Huxley...