Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There can be no doubt of the existence or a class such as the one described-indeed in so large a community of young men it would be strange if there was not. The almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will...
...plan." It must be admitted that, owing to the unfortunate action of the overseers, no other conclusion is open to an outsider who has no opportunity of knowing the real facts of the case. But when the Princetonian adds, "notably of the part of it which takes away all restraint upon exercises under the pretext of giving freedom," it is apparent that our contemporary is letting imagination supply the lack of information...
...those who are conversant with the facts of the case, such talk is absurd. The charge of "all restraint being taken away" is wholly false. Each professor exercises full power over any student who cuts his course oftener than the instructor thinks advisable and such power extends even to expulsion from the course. It is not seldom taken advantage of. To say that the Board of Overseers have proved their wisdom is to reflect upon President Eliot, the one best fitted to judge of the matter...
...Missionary Association had accepted the invitation of the society to hold its second annual convention in Cambridge next year. Rev. Percy Browne, of St. James Church, Roxbury, addressed the meeting in a few earnest words of exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good, but to adjust ourselves to the environments in which God has placed us. The cultivation of our souls...
...Harvard indifference-has been dinged in our ears for years past as the cause of our athletic defeats. Some men, however, have seen more deeply, and have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit of it is in the very...