Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CLASS feeling seems to be decreasing at Harvard, so that it is not uncommon to find men who scarcely know all their classmates by sight, - a natural consequence of the size of the classes and the lack of any interest in which a whole class is united. At the same time the elective system throws men of different classes together, and tends to make us more a University, where the only distinctions made by the government are in the degree of knowledge obtained, and where Freshmen and Seniors may meet on common ground in the recitation-room. It seems, therefore...
...truth is, that I am of a philosophical turn of mind. I looked with sorrow on the scramble for wealth and the lack of culture in America. I felt that the influence of even one man towards correcting these evils would not be lost. Although many offices with large salaries were offered me, I was actuated by a purpose of establishing a centre of learning and refinement, - a republic after Plato's own heart, - and I decided to take the post-office of Skunk's Misery, feeling assured that a man of culture and a philosopher could make the lowliest...
...President's Report says that no more electives can be offered until the number of undergraduates has risen to eight hundred, - we suppose partly on account of the lack of money for salaries, - so that we ought to be more warmly grateful to our instructors for their kindness in voluntarily increasing their duties. Old Harvard certainly deserves to be the largest real University in the country, for she seems never to tire of increasing and improving the opportunities she offers for intellectual development, and is doing her best to rank high, in more than mere numbers, among the educational institutions...
...lack of education in art matters is evident, and experience has proved that while the present courses are good as far as they go, one cannot in a year fully master the principles they should teach. We cannot too earnestly express the hope that the possibility of the formation of these new art-courses will speedily become a certainty; and we are confident that, when established, they will never be in want of students...
...Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect of the Puritans," we shall not lack warnings of the danger of opinions such as we have expressed; but we would ask these Rechabites, Is there not as much danger in encouraging a system which makes a glass of beer after dinner something to be frowned at or smiled at as immoral...