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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We take great pride in our University; we would not go to any other college so long as Harvard existed; we rejoice at the spirit of progress which has put us at the head of all the institutions of learning in this country. But sometimes we complain, and perhaps occasionally are unreasonable in our demands. The college authorities are by no means obdurate, for they have many times responded to the pleadings of the students, but to several of our entreaties they turn a deaf ear. In yesterday's CRIMSON was a communication asking for lights...
...same grievances exist in England.- Dicey, England's Case against Ireland; Edinburgh Review...
Moreover, we believe that statement to be absolutely false. There is a remedy for the great evil which has taken such possession here, and which has brought our athletics to the deplorable state in which they exist at present. That remedy lies in the students themselves. It can come from no other source. It may be awakened from contact with the world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that...
...appropriating-even from a closed locker-what does not belong to him, and the summary measures which are taken with the delinquent for a time serve as a warning to others of the same kin. It would be impossible to believe that such a state of affairs could exist in this college were not the fact too well demonstrated in two or three cases during the past year. If the inherent dignity and honor of a man does not prove a barrier to all such acts, some watch should be kept in the gymnasium which would...
...college? Are many students large spenders? Must a man of moderate means on coming here be put to shame? Will be find himself a disparaged person, out of accord with the spirit of the place, and unable to attain its characteristic advantages? No systematic evidence on the subject has existed. It is time it did exist, and I have made an attempt to obtain it. To each member of the graduating class I sent a circular asking if he would be willing to tell me in confidence what his college course had cost. I desired him to include...