Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...held at a more convenient time and place, these contests have never been sufficiently attractive to secure a fair representation of Harvard students either as contestants or spectators; and, unless something can be done in future to secure a larger representation from this College, it would be quite as well for us to withdraw entirely from the Association...
...future of the crew depends largely on these clubs, something must be done to connect the crew with them, so that the subscriber to the crew shall receive in return, not only the uncertain promise of victory, but the definite personal enjoyment of rowing in the clubs and in well-kept boats. Boating must be arranged on the business-like basis of pay and receive...
...catholic literary taste admires the classics; the masterpieces of Italian literature are worth a careful perusal; and Mr. Lowell always expressed a great admiration for the genius of Cervantes; and of course there are profundity of thought, poetic beauty, and felicity of description in French and German authors as well as in our own tongue. This country as yet has no class of regular litterateurs, as Paris and London have; but it is probable that, with the growth of the country, such a class is rapidly growing. Our College has in the past sent forth more eminent literary men than...
...case with the Independent, which felt called upon to read us a lecture on behavior, but which admitted that the evil practices deplored were confined to a comparative few, and that the majority of Harvard students were gentlemen in the best sense of that word. These attacks were well answered in several Boston papers, the Post especially showing, in an able editorial, that at least there was nothing radically wrong in Harvard studies or discipline...
...many of which were as untrue and pointless as are those which have been cited. What has been said on the other side is not much, but it is to the point. Discussing the impertinence of reporters, George William Curtis, writing in the Easy Chair of Harper's Magazine, well says...