Word: rightnesses
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...with sinister mysteriousness, gives out the hint that Harvard has thrown overboard, along with prescribed Greek, more than she suspects. Still another talks gloomily about the "combined forces of moneyed considerations and a false liberalism" "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage." They are mature announcement of the change has thus done considerable mischief Since the faculty are but human, it can hardly be expected of them, in the face of this violent and irrational clamor to come to their final decision in the matter...
Upon entering the grounds through the driveway, we first passed a pretty stone building called the Lodge, then on the right, the imposing Stone Hall. Music Hall is the next, on the left, and finally we arrived at the College, a fine brick building, imposingly placed on the summit of a steep hill which rises directly from the lake. Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their...
...afford any chance for rapid off-hand writing. The system of daily theme writing, instituted in one course, is an approach toward the proper cultivation of the ability to do off-hand work, but even this does not answer the purpose. It is only an attempt in the right direction; it lacks from necessity both method and direction. So far as the system of class themes goes, we believe it to be utterly worthless, either to make composition easier or better. The half-dozen themes ground out during the year, have about as much influence in raising the literary standard...
...Noble men, being peers in their own right, who enjoy certain privileges and exemptions not accorded to others, in the choice of rooms, paving higher fees, doing less work, and attending fewer lectures. They have two kinds of dress; the first, which is worn on public occasions, is a gown of purple damask silk, richly ornamented with gold lace. The second is a black silk gown, with full sleeves. This is worn as an "every day" dress. With both these is worn the regulation "mortarboard" of black velvet, with gold tassel...
...nature of such a force; and perhaps on this account people are apt, in discussing the freedom of the will, to confuse this special kind of freedom with those others which I have tried to explain. Another source of confusion is the prevailing feeling that the very existence of right and wrong is involved in this question; and therefore men approach the subject with their minds already made up, and in doot take the trouble to analyze the problem and see in what sense right and wrong really depend on the answer we give...