Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain the services of some new man who would reflect credit upon the university, as the instructor named for the position is one already identified with Harvard...
...doesn't reflect especial credit on the class that a member of '86 went to sleep in a German recitation recently, and another amused himself by rolling a marble down the floor to the instructor's desk. These incidents, however, we are glad to hear are not participated in by more than a few, who will probably learn better as they grow older...
...atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important principle has now been vindicated for both institutions - the principle that learning, whether Christian or secular, must be co-extensive with present life, and must reflect the spirit of the times...
...Marquand Chapel is at last completed. The finishing touches have but just been applied to the interior. The decorations within are elegant and tasty, and reflect great credit on the ability of the designer. - [Princetonian...
...that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport...