Word: longs
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...argument is brought to overthrow my position. I contradict myself! What if I contradict myself a hundred times, does this disprove the fact that the "slight" change in the amendment was only a sop thrown to the conservative members to stop their opposition? Mr. Maude has listened to the long debates as well as "J. N. M.," and knows that but for that "slight" change, the amendment would never have been adopted. And why did that slight change pacify all opposition? Because it left the tacit understanding - to which some of the officers gave even loud expression - that the "slight...
...graduates who come back here after several years' absence than the preservation of athletic trophies and records. Any one who has visited the English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with what interest he saw on the long roll of oarsmen men who afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done...
...conversely. As none of us have ever passed our summer vacations at the North Pole, shall we enjoy having days twenty-four hours long and no nights? Our morning naps will be impossible...
ANOTHER society has been added to the long list of Harvard societies: "The Harvard Historical Society." Unlike some others, this society supplies a want felt in the University, and as long as it is not too ambitious in its aims, we offer it our hearty support. The idea of getting such men as Lodge, Von Holst, Adams, and Fiske to lecture on living historical questions deserves much praise, and we hope the students will signify their approval by turning out in full force to the lectures...
HARVARD COLLEGE has long been reproached, perhaps unjustly, with its narrowness on religious questions; but its bigotry in political questions has never as yet been discussed. Perhaps there has never been a time when a broad knowledge of political and economic subjects was more necessary than the present, and yet in the all-absorbing question of free trade or protection for the United States, the instruction given most certainly not only inclines favorably to one side, but does not even give a fair statement of the other. The question is by no means settled, and it would certainly...