Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...From a Graduate's Window" we are told of a dialogue with Socrates in which that philosopher "roasts" the Fogg Museum and the Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...
...battle of Bunker Hill an "absurd blunder" from the American point of view...
...conconsiderable interest as showing roughly from what men Harvard's intercollegiate representatives are to be picked. The work which they will do in preparation for the debate is not of such a nature as to be prominently before the University but it is as important for the end in view as the prelimnary training of a football squad is for the big games. Our debaters are doing a distinct service to the University and should be accorded the credit which such service deserves...
...view of the fact that the foundation of a University Club in Cambridge has been discussed by prominent graduates, and in view of the fact that no plan for a university club could be carred out unless more than a passive acquiesence in the scheme was manifested by the undergraduates, it is interesting to note the sentiment of the undergraduate body as it has been expressed by the presidents of the respective classes in the present issue of the Monthly. As far as can be judged by their messages, the undergraduate attitude toward the proposed university club is something like...
This higher view of religion, that one should push on, past the mere signs, to the power which lies behind them, is too often forgotten. Much as men will labor for mental civilization, they wish to gain easily, at a single step, a perfect faith and thorough understanding of the truth. They forget that no valuable result can be won without a struggle, and become discouraged at the very first difficulty...