Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...said that she would rather...
...least six days after the Harvard-Yale race. They also gave the Freshmen to understand that they had better select Lake George or Philadelphia or Saratoga, or some other course where good management would gladly be promised them, instead of New London, where their presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned...
...real danger which threatens the visiting public at New London - or which would threaten it were the present managers to be superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen...
...course they have taken seems to prove, let us have no Annex whatever. There are numerous institutions where women can obtain a university education, Vassar or Smith College for example, and the need of such instruction from Harvard professors is not so urgent but that it can be endured, rather than that the rights of Harvard College should be imposed upon. If we are to have coeducation, let it be announced boldly in the catalogue and the public press. If we are not to have co-education, let this insidious move in its favor be stopped...
This action, or rather inaction, is to be regretted all the more as it shuts out not only students against whom no charge can be brought but that of unsoundness in Christian doctrine, but also all Unitarians and Universalists, who claim, and justly claim, to be Christians; perhaps not as good Christians as those called Evangelical, but still Christians. It is to be hoped that the society will reconsider its recent action, and open its doors to all whose characters are spotless, without reference to their beliefs or disbeliefs in matters that have little connection with humility, patience, and love...