Word: real
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent decision of Judge Van Vorst of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Harvard has lost the bequest of Dr. Martyn Paine, who left his real and personal property to Harvard College for the purpose of establishing scholarships and prizes in memory...
...What do you think of Fine Arts 2? We had a very interesting lecture to-day on the collars of 1879, illustrated by an antique portrait, inscribed PACH, of a real college...
...made early enough this year for the authorities to take action upon it. There is no conceivable reason for having it in Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find...
...season seems to be a favorable one for controversies between college papers. The Courant and Record have wheeled into line after the example of the Era and Review, and are having "a real old-time Greco-Roman with crossed quills." The Courant has in its last issue a pretty severe "rough" on one of the Record editors, and we are waiting with anxiety to see the Record pay back the compliment with interest. Thank Heaven that the Advocate and Crimson can nearly always confine their remarks about each other to their brevity columns...
Although a low college rank cannot make void or hardly detract from real acquirements, yet there always follows it a sense of injustice which a college should by every possible means seek to avoid, as it burns into the very marrow of the young and sensitive...