Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that music is, I think...
...recitations." I guess he meant that they did n't have to go to them, but he told me that if he did n't go, some of the Professors would mark him zero for not going. Is that so? I guess he was funning; anyhow, I don't think it's fair. I ask you this, because I am getting out a hand-book on the "Elective System at Harvard," explaining it to outsiders, and I want to have a few facts. It will be published at the Riverside Press...
...shall have power to employ such servants and assistants, and make such regulations for the economy and success of the Association, as they shall deem proper. They shall elect a Field Marshal to take charge of all the sports, and shall appoint all the Judges, Timekeepers, etc., that they think necessary...
...year, I was surprised and disgusted to find what a long walk it was to reach the Botanical Garden. Now, as I took this course under the impression that it was soft, and as this walk takes away all the softness that there might otherwise be in it, I think it no more than right that the distance should be decreased in some way. It is not right that the time of sixty or seventy men should be wasted twice a week by such a long walk as the distance now is. Either let the College be moved nearer...
...very many would prefer to employ the time which it takes up in some other way. History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...