Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the college at the mass meeting last evening needs little comment. There were two distinct issues before the students, one based on the past, the other on the future; but only in the former was any binding action taken. Harvard has decided to withdraw unconditionally from the football league, and this is as it should be. By so doing she has put herself on record as the champion of purity in intercollegiate athletics. Whatever may be the result of her action, she has assumed of her own accord an independent position which cannot successfully be challenged...
...first Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon in Appleton Chapel. These services have steadily grown in popularity since their inauguration, and it is because they fill a distinct place in the life of the university. The services will always appeal strongly to the students for many reasons. They come at a very convenient hour, at the close of the day's work, and do not interfere in any way with the regular duties of the day. They are conducted by men whose very names are sufficient assurance that the services will always be interesting and practical...
...years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class enthusiasm when kept within proper boun has a distinct and valuable place to fill. The present series of class games seems to have served to revive in some degree this legitimate type of class spirit...
...Boston Post of yesterday published a very interesting and fairminded editorial on Harvard, her present success and her possibilities. It is always a distinct relief to find our university truthfully represented, and particularly to learn that the most sever critics of the century, the newspapers, are glad to give credit when and where it is due. It is undeniable that there are mistakes made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best...
...Cambridge, is experienced in practical elocution and voice culture, and is recommended by Madam Edna Hall of Boston and Professor Churchill of Andover. Miss Wehster has been especially successful in helping those who have been troubled with impediments of speech, throat defects, and the numerous hindrances to easy and distinct rendering in both elocution and vocal music, due to incorrect breathing and to ill use of the vocal organs. She will be pleased to meet any who may be desirous of studying either privately or in classes...