Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening in Sever 11, Mr. Babbitt delivered an interesting lecture on the Norse story of Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu," and in order that his audience might better understand it, he gave a short account of Norse history and customs...
...understand why Princeton should delay payment, for in doing so they are departing from all precedent, are violating fixed agreements, and are making themselves appear in a very unfavorable light. Even if such delay were necessary, although we cannot see why it should be, why has not the Princeton management had the courtesty to write and explain the cause of the unusual delay? Whenever Princeton has played in Cambridge, the Harvard management has always paid them immediately and it is only fair that we receive like treatment from Princeton, or if kept waiting in this vexations manner, that we receive...
...intimate relationship existing between student and professor at Harvard is found in the recent College Conference meeting, at which Mr. Roger Wolcott talked to the students of the regulations passed by the Overseers. Never before in an American college has the right of the students to discuss and understand measures for their own government been so distinctly recognized. That this was the direct outcome of the intimate personal intercourse which characterizes the relationship of instructors to instructed in Harvard University today no one can question...
...course of lectures on Anthropology, the last of which Dr. Ward delivered on Monday, have aroused no little enthusiasm among those students who were fortunate enough to hear them, and we understand that a movement is on foot among some of the men to petition the faculty for the addition of a course in Anthropology to the curriculum for next year. Whether we have been rightly informed or not in regard to the movement, we wish to express hearty sympathy with such a sentiment, and would encourage those interested to place a petition before the faculty, for in the present...
Every Harvard man will read with the greatest satisfaction what Rev. F. B. Vrooman has to say concerning the religious life here at Harvard. We feel that he understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed...