Search Details

Word: either...or (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

From Mass., with its lines of cruel forms flanked on either side by an incongruous mass of broken chairs and desks, to Harvard and the funeral blackness therein contained, to Sever with its shiny but hard hearted benches, to our Laboratories with their curious devices for holding students, as it were, in situ for an hour at a time, - through all the weary round constantly the observer's wonder increases at the conditions under which existence can make even a partially successful contest with extinction. There are three or four main classes into which these seating facilities may be divided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Luxury. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...obvious that, since these courses are open to undergraduates, they must be taken in connection with the regular college work. They count either as a whole or half courses. Already complications have arisen as to the number of them that may be taken at one time. If the present courses prove successful, as we have no doubt they will, and the other departments offer similar ones, a very considerable problem looms up in the near future. Can a student elect more than one such course at one time? It seems to us eminently proper that he should be allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...only in order to subject them to the severest condemnation. With all due regard to French Realism, I can scarcely believe that for two hundred students to listen to a detailed account of such a life, unless it be delivered in order that its hideousness be shown, is either profitable or consistent with the high tone of this college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/22/1886 | See Source »

...glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard graduates to-day fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Religion. | 1/20/1886 | See Source »

...these criticisms doubtless have a certain amount of justice in them, but why all this needless extravagance? The exchange editor of the college paper seems to lack good judgment, to be immoderate in all that he does, giving either elaborate praise or uncalled for censure. He should, however, remember that extravagance, whether in praise or censure, defeats its own ends. In the case of praise the lies are too evident; and in the case of censure the bitterness very naturally meets with resentment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Our Exchanges." | 1/18/1886 | See Source »