Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Excuse me, but there is a blue star on those books; they cannot leave the library...
...learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat of the University. There are many people who cannot understand that it was a Freshman, and not a University crew, that was beaten at Owasco Lake last summer...
...very different aspect which the boat-house presents this year from that of other years cannot be too often remarked upon. The mere fact that there are between forty and fifty men now in training, besides the members of the University Crew, conclusively proves that we have not yet lost all interest in rowing, and also shows that class crews arouse a much more active competition than the old club system ever did or could. The reason for this is obvious, and, apart from the raising of our standard in rowing itself, we ought to congratulate ourselves that any scheme...
...recently remarked that this scheme was like the great bill for "Giving Everybody Everything," and it certainly is. Everybody cannot be rewarded; if they were, rewards would lose all their worth. Half the essence of a prize is the distinction from others it conveys. By lowering the standard of the requirements for honours, we decrease the value of those prizes, and the hitherto highly valued graduation honours of Harvard College will soon degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes lavished among the classes of small-sized colleges...
...article in the last Advocate indorsed this view. These papers ought to, and generally do, represent undergraduate feeling, but on this important question I believe, with all due respect to editorial opinion, that they have seriously misrepresented it, especially the feeling of those most interested; and therefore I cannot let the matter pass without a protest...