Word: dons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dr. Andrew P. Peabody writes the preface for this book. He says it is "rodolent of genius, wit and poetic inspiration." Professor Charles Eliot Norton said of the first volume published in 1876, "Consule Planco," as Thackeray would say, which means, when Mr. Quincy was president. "I don't think...
As for the fellow who has written these things about his own college, he probably knows no better, and therefore deserves pity, not scorn and loathing. He probably is some wretched, half-witted being, living in a very musty and unclean garret, tenanted by vermin, who scribbles to order, that...
For this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and...
Many poor struggling geniuses among us who feel that they have not done those things they ought to have done during the past term, are, about this time, revolving in their minds whether they will go home during the Christmas vacation or virtuously remain in Cambridge and grind. To all...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - In the new "Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," there is one rule that seems to be very unfair. I refer to the clause in section 27 relating to degrees cum laude, in which it is distinctly stated that no student who has ever fallen below...