Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...include the scientific school freshmen, this year numbering 106 and making the total number registered there 311. At Harvard the entries in the scientific school are not counted, nor are those of special students. The students in the Lawrence Scientific School are so few that it matters little whether they are counted or not; but as Harvard this year registers nearly if not quite 100 new special students, it would be fair, according to the Yale method of computation, to call the entering class at Cambridge over 400 strong. The exact figures cannot of course be known until after...
...heard fathers complain that the social system in Cambridge was so rotten that they would never send another son here. After making allowance for exaggeration, there is still much which should make those who are aiding in the perpetuation of "a rotten social system" pause a moment to consider whether they have any right-moral or otherwise-to make Cambridge unfit for young men about to begin their college course. ent men of their standing and fame sacrifice much in a pecuniary...
...those who are instrumentally inclined, whether they play the Bassoon or the Kazoo or both, they should present themselves before the august committee of the Venerable Pierian Sodality, and if perchance a man proves himself able to play even a little bit he can rest assured of a warm instrumental reception...
...them to furnish "punch" on Monday night to the sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view their belongings on the following morning, their standard of Harvard life has been lowered materially, and they begin to wonder whether this well-worn saying is true, "No matter what else he may be, a Harvard man is always a gentleman...
...compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which the voluntary system...