Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Other modern French critics, such as Lemaitre and Bourget, are novel-writers, poets, playwrights besides, and therefore in danger of being prejudiced; M. Brunetiere is a critic and nothing else, unless, indeed, his desire to propagate pure science and his intimate knowlege of life lead us to think of him as a scientist and a philosoper, both of which titles he disclaims...
...editorial Saturday morning you implied that the decision on the Yale debate was a surprise to the audience. This is true, and was due, no doubt, to the fact that on the question of bimetalism, the substantial matter at issue, the Harvard argument was unquestionably the stronger. Still, I think, the reason of our defeat is perfectly clear. The Yale men held that by the first half of the question the affirmative was required to defend a certain policy on the part of Congress; this policy, said the Yale speakers, would bring disaster. The Harvard men tried to make...
...think we can draw some lessons from our defeat. In the first place, our own interpretation of a question may be right, but it is never safe to be so sure it is right as to leave unanswered or treat as irrelevant arguments based upon a different understanding of the subject. If our men had said, "We do not accept the Yale interpretation; still we will answer our opponents on their own ground," the result might have been different...
...regard to the attitude of tonight's audience. The speakers for the University at which the debate is held have always been thought to have an advantage over their opponent. It only remains for those who attend tonight to be so impartial in their demonstrations that the visitors may think Cambridge as fair a place for the contest as any neutral ground...
...forged official notice published in yesterday's CRIMSON has been the cause of considerable annoyance to a professor and has delayed the work of a large course. While such an affair might have a humerous side, it is unpleasnt to think that any one would send this notice after reflection of what the consequences would be. Not only does the writer take it upon himself to stop the work of several hundred other men, but by sending such word to the CRIMSON, there is danger that instructors lose confidence in the paper and deprive it of one of its most...