Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...about ten years since the last Freshman debate with Yale was held--the last of a series of five or six joint debates. They were discontinued then largely because they were not of sufficient merit to justify their existence. The speakers were inadequately coached and did not reflect the Harvard method of debating, but rather that in vogue at their preparatory schools...
Taken as a whole the concert gave evident pleasure to the audience, while the ability of the performers, and the striking quality of the original compositions played, should reflect with the highest credit not only upon the men concerned and the esprit de corps of the Musical Club, but upon the resourcefulness and efficiency of the Musical Department as well...
...showed that he had absorbed to a remarkable degree the knowledge of our time in regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified gas, a flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing the truths and sublimity...
...Ballads. This is the first catalogue of these pamphlets, amounting to about 3,000 including duplicates, which has ever been published. These Chap-books are interesting because they cover a wide range of subjects; they preserve a record of many details of manners and customs, superstitions and prejudices; they reflect the popular point of view in ways that might otherwise disappear; and they transmit to us a host of romances, songs, jests, and anecdotes in the form popular at the time of their production...
Fosdick of Princeton was the last speaker in the debate. He pointed out that the negative had not shown that there was anything better than the free elective system, and that what the negative had said did not reflect upon the principle of free election, but merely upon the way the system is conducted at Harvard...