Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Exactly what form the permanent arrangement would take we do not know. The chief thing asked by the students would be that the social life be not seriously disturbed. If the arrangement were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit...
...attitude of the students on the Memorial Hall question is not so easy to state as that of the Corporation, since the Corporation is a small and clearly united body, while the student body is large and of differing opinions. And yet we think that there are two beliefs which will be found at the base of nearly all student sentiment upon the question...
...baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...Grand Army post would like, if it were quite agreeable to the students, to take part in any observance which shall be made, and it is safe to say that all students would welcome their cooperation. If the observance takes the form of a meeting in Sanders Theatre, we think that it would be better not to have it so long as was the one of last year. A few simple words, and music are all that the occasion needs. The one purpose of the meeting would be to bring vividly to the minds of the students now within Harvard...
...kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only a few ecclesiastics are moved to think in the forms of the language...