Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenses must be cut down, so that no man can feel sure of his reappointment with even his present paltry salary. Now this cutting down expenses by letting our most valuable instructors go from our best conducted departments is a fatal policy. It is rumored that the corporation have thought seriously of cutting down our Greek department, too. This department should be one of the last to be cut down. The fact is, that the corporation have been appointing a number of new professors when it seems that they could not pay for the ones we had already. There...
...great Oxford-Cambridge race takes place today on the Thames. Neither crew is thought to be up to the usual standard, and the betting is even...
...recognize for an instant the possibility of such an occurrence as a case of intoxication being seen at the hall. The character of Harvard men is too well known to even admit of such a thought. It would be useless for me to reiterate the arguments advanced in my former letter; they are well known to every one who has examined the subject. I think, too, that you decide rather hastily when you say, as if conclusively, that the corporation would veto any step in the direction proposed. That body, I feel sure, are quick to recognize what is best...
...received yesterday No. 1 of the Yale Critic. It contains a very good article on "Oratory at Yale," and a number of advertisements which showed much deep thought and editorial ability...
...unfortunate that the Longfellow memorial exercises last Sunday afternoon in Appleton Chapel should have been so disappointing and unsatisfactory in their arrangements. It had been thought that the memory of our nation's poet and Cambridge's greatest citizen would make this a befitting occasion for the expression of a universal grief, that should be attended by an impressive solemnity. But all was dissatisfaction. The arrangements were very poor, and little provision was made for the vast throng that naturally attended such an affair. The galleries were at once filled to overflowing and great numbers of people choked...