Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...saucy sophomore and other erring upperclassmen. It was not our intention to make editorial comment on the gentle pleadings of our correspondent. But many other letters, two of which we publish in to-day's issue, have been received from the writer's class mates, - from which we gather that the freshman class have not given a contract to young Hopeful to write in their behalf. Alas, ye wicked generation of upperclassmen. How can you be so unsympathetic and cold of heart to the orphaned and homesick nursling who thus appeals to you for love and aid. For consider that...
...clear sky looked down upon the Charles River yesterday, and beheld one of the most magnificent races that ever took place on the course. Before twelve o'clock people had began to gather in rear windows on Beacon street, and interested spectators chose favorable positions near the finish and waited. At a quarter of one, three tugs were moored at the drawbridge and rapidly filled. One bore a huge green and white banner, and an enthusiastic body of sophomores clustered on its pilot box; the second was jammed with noisy and excited freshmen, and covered with red and white bunting...
...comes to college and does not avail himself of the opportunity to attend the lectures that are constantly being given, is not enjoying the advantages and benefits which Harvard offers in this particular direction. Lectures are the great means by which we may gather the ideas of different men, learn of the vocations and grow wise from their experience; it is also the means by which we may become acquainted with the great men of our day and learn of their manner of thinking. This system of having public lectures is daily growing more and more popular; especially is this...
...brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human consciousness has religion any sanctity; only by interpreting human history has it any meaning. Around such a service sentiments of reverence and love would gather in time, and college prayers would have a different meaning than that they have...
University life fosters individual peculiarities. Any large centre of learning will gather about it both the learned and the unlearned, the ordinary and the peculiar. And almost every type of goodness, evil, and indifference will characterize the student life. Every university or college possesses proofs of this. But Harvard is, perhaps, at present unique in one particular, boasts a higher perfection in one field, enjoys deeper draughts of one pleasure than any other college in an American's knowledge. This is the work of Harvard poets. The work of our poets is the model of the western college poetasters...