Word: medium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light can flow. "Blessed are the pure in thought for they shall see God." Are those words too lofty - too transcendant, to write on the new portal of the college yard? Would they be but a mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning...
...such a university cultivating righteousness as the medium of faith must come great privileges. We love to think that she must become a great home of reconciliations. In her calm and lofty air, the friends of whom the world would make, foes must meet and own their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal...
...quarterly Journal of Economics, established from a fund donated to the university by John E. Thayer, '85, has just appeared. It will prove an invaluable aid to students of Political Economy. The prospectus announces that "The journal will supply a medium of publication for studies in economic history, criticism and speculation, and for the discussion of the important questions of the day. It will present an accurate record of current speculations upon Economics in all the principal languages, and will reprint important articles, documents and statistical matter." The leading article is by Prof. Dunbar on "The Reaction in Political Economy...
...players in college, I would like to know why a Banjo Club could not be started at Harvard. Undoubtedly it would be aided both by the Glee Club and the Pierian, and would be invited to take part in the annual concerts in Sanders Theatre. Any communications through the medium of the CRIMSON on this subject, would enable those interested in the project to get at college feeling in regard to the establishment of such a club...
...believed that by a journal on this plan, combining some of the advantages of the review, the monograph, and the magazine, much valuable work which is now lost for the want of a proper medium may be brought together and saved, a stimulus may be given to scholarly research and discussion, and important assistance afforded to those who are interested in the solution of the great economic, financial and social questions of the day. And with this belief your co-operation and support are invited with confident hope...