Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow...
...college societies possess the power of influencing college thought by the lectures given under their auspices so distinctly as a philosophical society. The work of a financial, historical, or literary society is in a certain sense limited, both in its usefulness and influence to its work and the students who pursue kindred work in their studies. But the work of a society of which the scope is so extensive as that of a philosophical society, is of interest to all who pretend to any degree of sober thought. The lecture which was given last year under the auspices...
Quite a large audience assembled in Sever 6 last evening, to listen to the reading of Mr. Dana's dissertation. To appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought...
...After Professor Palmer had called the meeting to order, the discussion was opened upon the resolution that those students guilty of cribbing should be tried before the Conference Committee, having right, however, to appeal to the faculty in case of verdict of guilty. There were three distinct lines of thought expressed. A number favored the resolution, feeling that it embodied the best method of acting directly on college opinion; that it would stimulate a healthy sentiment which would blot out cribbing by making it unpopular; and that the students at large when thoroughly conversant with the case would give...
...means of a compulsory service? We cannot believe it. On the contrary, we believe a compulsory service one of the very worst means that could be devised. Those ideals of life which Harvard has given men would have been given them if a compulsory chapel had never been thought of. Moral teaching does not gain any efficacy from compulsion. Yet this the present system quite neglects. Compulsion is continued because of a fear that without it the service could not be carried on, and everyone knows the fact. Is this a moral lesson? If it be true that the only...