Word: writings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sophomores who have done good work in English B will be allowed to write one double theme of not less than ten pages, instead of the next two regular narrative themes. The double theme will be due Dec. 18. The names of those entitled to write it will be posted in Sever 3 today...
Resolved, That the ability to read and write should be necessary to the exercise of the elective franchise...
...Wednesday sections in English A will write in Sever...
Under "Topics of the Day," is given an account of the experience of "Brown, the moderate grind," in his attempts to write a sophomore theme. Many a sophomore will find his sympathies aroused for the struggling novice and will secretly admit that his own name might well be substituted in place of that of Brown. The article is admirable for its faithful description of a common experience in student life...
...true state of things existing here, but also to reader who is ignorant of Harvard's methods and customs. In his concluding sentence, the writer meets the cry of misrepresentation that he knows is sure to rise against him by asserting that it is not his business to write of a nobler Harvard, but merely of the baser tendencies of the Unversity. He fancies he has cleared himself by this lightly written phrase. In truth he has played the part of a mole. Without a glance at the fair structure which Harvard men have built in their prosperity...