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...elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast off a custom which must needs seem to all sober-minded men a disgrace to our college, binding on us as it does material observance of spiritual things. Let us have another petition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/25/1885 | See Source »

...operative Society" discount of 15 per cent. to all students. We keep one of the best and finest stocks of English and American Boots and Shoes to be found in the city. We are well known at Harvard as first-class. Small Bros., 371 Washington St., cor. Bromfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/19/1885 | See Source »

...choice on account of the immaturity of students as follows: "Many people seem to suppose that at some epoch in the life of a young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Education. | 11/19/1885 | See Source »

...operative Society" discount of 15 per cent. to all students. We keep one of the best and finest stocks of English and American Boots and Shoes to be found in the city. We are well known at Harvard as first-class. Small Bros., 371 Washington St., cor. Bromfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/18/1885 | See Source »

...operative Society" discount of 15 per cent, to all students. We keep one of the best and finest stocks of English and American Boots and Shoes to be found in the city. We are well known at Harvard as first-class. Small Bros., 371 Washington St., cor. Bromfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1885 | See Source »