Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strict adherence to precedent is all very well in its way, but there is such a thing as carrying it too far. The way the Tuesday lectures are managed is perfectly abominable. The faculty seem to think that these lectures on professions are of no more interest to the college at large than those weekly lectures on Health which make such a scanty showing in the halls of Sever. Tuesday night every seat was filled by ten minutes past seven, nearly half an hour before the lecture began. After this there was nothing but standing room, and even that...
...that he who cheats be either dismissed or expelled. Suspension, which has hitherto been the punishment, is too light. If a man is dishonest he is not fit to take a degree from Harvard; he is neither a gentleman, nor is he fit to associate with gentlemen. The only thing to do with him is to make him leave college...
...think that the first resolution passed by the Conference Committee will commend itself to all. Heretofore dishonesty has, by the sanction of the faculty's rule, held much the same position as playing ball in the yard. It is a thing not wrong in itself; but merely improper in college. Striking out any rule about the matter puts the crime on the same ground as stealing books from the library. Stealing is everywhere an offence, and needs no rule to make it so. Men do not need to be told about that which by everyone everywhere is or should...
...aspect of things has changed. Now, even those who themselves at tend prayers with pleasure, or who would attend them with pleasure, if they were voluntary, feel that this pleasure is tainted by the consideration that they are not free. Even these persons who look on prayers with a certain favor, feel that to make them compulsory is wrong; that there is nothing in public prayers so natural and so necessary that it should be a student's duty to attend them. It cannot be denied by one who tries to be sincere that, if all students were anxious...
There is but one worthy reason why prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained...