Word: downs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Let us not talk of "narrowing down our models" when objection is made to the imitation of England's institutions. We need no broader or more liberal copy than the true story of Americanism. As for those who find "the dress of Englishmen more becoming, and their speech more musical...
The Harvard Lampoon loses none of its originality. As is often the case, its illustrations are superior to its literature. Particularly good is the representation of a Harvard student of 1900 sitting calmly unmoved and coldly indifferent while a Memorial Hall waiter is pouring soup down the back of his...
As a thoroughly American student I wish to protest against this narrowing down of our models. I cannot see that I am less patriotic because, finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these...
There has been much complaint lately of unnecessary noises in the college dormitories. While these noises have not been so great as to attract the attention of proctors, they have been sufficient to disturb more than one man whose mind, for the moment, was bent on "grinding." It is not...
Of candidates for the outgoing President's office there are very many. The charter, so ably defended by President Porter, requires the choice of a clergyman, a consideration which bars out such men as ex-President White of Cornell; President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, General Francis A. Walker, and certain...