Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deserve some recognition of their splendid victory over Yale, and in later years such trophies, if given, will be pleasant mementos of the freshman year at Harvard. If the practice of giving trophies, whenever the finances permit, to members of championship-winning teams is established, it will, I think, be an additional incentive to good work to our athletes-small, to be sure-but still we ought to do everything now to raise Harvard Athletics from the dust where they...
DEAR SIR: I have come to the conclusion that no sophomore ought ever to be captain of the crew. I therefore send you my resignation. I shall do my best to row on the crew this year, and only take this step because I think that under an older captain we shall have a better chance for that victory we desire so much...
...must give our opinion, however, that the attitude of Columbia towards Harvard is not correctly indicated by the Spectator. We should be very sorry to think that the student-body of Columbia had become actuated by so discreditable a feeling of spite. We desire to suggest to the editors of the Spectator that simple justice demands an apology for the appearance of such an article. We suggest, finally, for the edification of the Spectator, that the value of criticism lies in manliness and straightforwardness of utterances; not in power to work injury by a sneering laugh...
...that time, with one or two of what we call voluntary studies, which were, I think, all in the modern languages, the general drift of the college required the same work from one man as it did from another. There was a good classical course, a good mathematical course, almost nothing in natural history, good teaching in the modern languages, and excellent training in English. The courses in political economy, metaphysics, and morals were interesting, though they did not go far. Such as they were, these were almost the same for everybody; one man might take Spanish and another Italian...
...Greek slang of the fifth century B. C. into the modern language of the street. The translator gives us a spicy bit of reading, but it is a question whether he has not gone too far in his desire to be true to his author. We are inclined to think that there is a hint of an anachronism here, but, however that may be, we have no difficulty in understanding Aristophanes through the medium of such a translation...