Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until 1786 the students at both Yale and Harvard were ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking for that of alphabetical order. Harvard followed in her wake five years later...
...Sears who is at once thrown. Piper makes a long rush of thirty-five yards, and Perry gains fifteen yards but Yale gets the ball at length about the middle of the field. Wurtemburg gets through the rush-line but is stopped by Perry who throws him with a vicious snap. Morrison kicks a beautiful low kick which Sears only gets twenty yards from our line. In a few moments Yale gets the ball again, and just how it is done no one seems to know, but there is a very pretty rush of twenty-five yards made and Yale...
Such temptations are unquestionably to be found in the secret societies whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness. They are to my mind the greatest (and a most insidious) evil in the present constitution of the college, and are the nurseries both of extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them...
...know our great men. In art we want the work of the great artist pointed out to us. We love Routine. We want to see a Tadema or a Millais, but always expect to have it pointed out to us, and the result of this vicious practice has crept into every branch of art. The public exercises an irresistable coercian over the artist. The true artist is kept in misery by this tyrany. He is compelled to perpetuate that peculiarity by which he was first brought into notoriety despite his tastes. Poverty is no friend to art. Hard times have...
Harvard is not the place for boys of vicious inclinations. Undoubtedly it will take them less time to run their course here than at any other college. But it is only a matter of time; they will go to the bad sooner or later. All this proves nothing as to Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit...