Word: possession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
Some one has aptly said that "the genuine gentleman must possess a good degree of moral freedom; but the gentleman robes manliness in courtesy...
...cannot conclude without looking at home, and considering the claims which Harvard students possess to be regarded as men. For a number of years past, but more particularly recently, the Faculty have endeavored to treat students as if they were sufficiently mature to judge for themselves in matters which concerned them personally. All unnecessary and childish rules have long been dispensed with, and a liberty of action has been granted them as great if not greater than that accorded in any other institution of learning in this country or in England. For this the Faculty have deserved, and have received...
...year or the year before, and there is now great danger that it will be suspended at the end of this year. The benefits arising from voluntary recitations have often enough been discussed; every one knows that, when used with the discretion which the average Senior is supposed to possess, the system has very great advantages; its abolition would be a retrograde step, and would be much lamented. It becomes Seniors, therefore, for the little time they are to stay here, to be more constant at recitations. They should remember that by their immoderate cutting they have brought into peril...
...very good sort of a person, but his notions of amusing impudence do not agree with mine. He is an extremely nouveau riche, in fact, of the sort who cannot see the difference between vulgar impertinence and the decent amount of assurance that every gentleman ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which I am bound to say were very good, to the theories of good-fellowship which happen to be popular among a certain class of people in Cambridge...