Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...slow and painful, that no one who values his vacation will adopt it. A moment's reflection shows that the result is not proportionate to the labor, and that there must be an easier and equally sure way of gaining a prize. I think, in fact I feel sure, that I have discovered such a way; and, since I wish to advance the cause of literature at Harvard, I am willing to make it known. It cannot fail to give satisfaction, for it is the result of a careful psychological study of the involuntary workings of an examiner's mind...
AGAIN the annual duty devolves upon us of recording the going of the old class and the coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than...
WHILE the splendid victory of the Columbia crew in England is still fresh in the public mind, we would strongly urge the advisability of arranging a race between Harvard and one of the English Universities. We feel sure that the feeling of the college is strongly in favor of such a race, especially as the crew of this year will contain seven of the old oars of last year's boat. With such a crew there would be a good prospect of wiping out our former defeat by Oxford. The requisite funds to send an eight to England could doubtless...
...first half of the class were men whose parents or friends could provide for them. Out of the first fifty twenty-three only were candidates for scholarships. These facts prove that scholarly ambition prevails in good degree among that large majority of our students who do not feel the stimulus of impending want...
...privilege - those who have attained seventy per cent - are the very men who will not abuse it, and they are hardly complimented by the assertion that they will be "tempted to cut on any pretext." Their present high rank is a sufficient warranty of their future conduct, and we feel confident that they will not willingly permit the failure of the first step toward that freedom which is the highest incentive to manly work...