Word: inventive
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...three and a half columns. The letter purports to be written by a graduate. Certainly it was not written by any one who was connected with the college; and Harvard men may hope that no one who ever was connected with the college has proved so disloyal as to invent the libels contained in the article. The writer is so evidently behind the times, and his spiteful motive is so thinly disguised, that it would hardly be worth while to reply to him if he had not manipulated the figures from the catalogue in such a way as easily...
...chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks, a course which tends towards anything but broad thought and careful work...