Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON - Gentlemen: - I am sorry that my note to the CRIMSON was misinterpreted in your editorial columns yesterday. I have always taken pains to avoid a professional attitude toward pupils, and have done what I could to meet students as fellow-workers and as friends. More than that, half of my satisfaction here has come from this informal and unreserved intercourse with students. Yet now that I know hundreds of students, I find, naturally enough, that I have little time for the work which I have promised the college to do. Consequently this work has often been driven...
...slight, but nevertheless important change in college control has within a few months been quietly effected among us. The transference of the oversight over student attendance at lectures from the office to the individual instructors, must be counted worthy to rank among the great strides made of late toward a perfect system of college government. Just as in politics, the nearer the government is to the people governed, the more effective it becomes, so in the case before us. The great reason for this new method of regulating attendance, lies in the fact that each instructor is much better qualified...
...ball is brought out by Technology, but long kicks by Porter soon force it to the 25-yard line, with the ball in Harvard's possession. A good pass by Fletcher enables Porter to make a touchdown, from which Jones kicks a goal. Technology now works the ball toward the middle of the field, but a good run by Butler carries it in close proximity to the Technology goal line. Here Butler is thrown, and for a moment he cannot rise, as the wind has been knocked out of him. Play is resumed and Butler secures a touchdown, from which...
Resolved, That the tendency of Harvard toward broader university methods is a positive gain to American education...
...wish to say a kindly word to the freshmen. There exists in Harvard a tendency, or peril which has been called indifference, scepticism and other names are equally indefinite. It shows itself mainly in a frozen demeanor among the upperclassmen toward each other as well as toward the freshmen. Freshmen not being accustomed to such strange ways of evincing affectionate feeling, are troubled by this coldness. We simply give them a word of comfort and warning. They must not be discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they...