Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most unkindest cut" of all is to tell us that the faculty oppose a fence because they believe the students oppose it. To do a thing distasteful to us and then excuse it by claiming that we wish it, is a little too much. Student nature can bear no more. This idea overpowers us so that we are unable to touch upon the other argument - the "aesthetic" argument as the HERALD calls...
...making votes and political capital for Governor Butler, it will take the advice of the Journal in the matter of conferring the degre of LL. D. upon the governor. He is Dr. Butler already, another college having conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. But the proper thing for Harvard to do is to follow the 27 precedents it has made in this century, by conferring the customary honor upon the present chief magistrate. Then if anybody wants to change his will, why let him change it to his heart's content. - [Post...
...becoming general, we were willing to put up with a good deal of temporary inconvenience in order to bring about the accomplishment of that result. We have always insisted that professional influences ought to be kept out of amateur athletics as far as possible. But there is such a thing as carrying the policy of exclusion too far. For Harvard to insist upon this policy after it has been abandoned by all other colleges is simply to invite defeat for her teams at the hands of the teams of other colleges; and continued defeat: will not be apt to make...
...condition of Harvard University. Perhaps the recent account of the matter, which makes Harvard's religious condition about that of the world outside, is nearly correct. The faculty includes men of every shade of belief from the Agnostic and Pantheist to the Methodist and Baptist. And nearly the same thing might be said of the students, though I should be inclined to give credit to the report which represents the number of students from evangelical homes as continually increasing. The connection between teachers and students is much less close than in the West, and much less individual influence is exerted...
...Varsity nine last winter reserved the cage in the gymnasium for their own use entirely, so that they might practice in it whenever the spirit moved them, thus shutting every one else out and leaving the cage empty five-sixths of the day, the absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours and the other clubs selected in turn the hours left unoccupied. Why cannot we adopt the same plan in the matter of our tennis courts...