Word: saying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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German literature of today is in harmony with the idea that the government should exist to perfect the individual rather than the state, and hence we may say that German literature is in opposition to German government. The lecturer then briefly sketched the history of Germany, showing how after the thirty pear's war it was seen that strong bonds of unison among the different principalities could only be maintained by allowing the individual more freedom of thought...
Every Harvard man will read with the greatest satisfaction what Rev. F. B. Vrooman has to say concerning the religious life here at Harvard. We feel that he understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed...
...been wronged. Then, after working together for a while, we called a meeting of the graduate and under-graduate students here from other colleges. As some of these men had attended more than one college, either in the New or the Old World, we had represented there, I should say, 100 institutions. The views expressed at this meeting showed that Harvard had been unfairly treated; but as we all desired to go further into the matter, we appointed a committee to investigate. This committee has sent a circular containing ten questions to all men here from other colleges...
...been known for some time that the 'varsity crew is to have a new paper shell, but beyond this there has been nothing of especial interest to say of it. The shell will be built on the conventional Waters model, and will be about the same as the boat used last year. It is to be sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp...
...caution in criticizing the action of the faculty. The hints dropped by the professors mentioned above have been very vague and have come mostly as warning, so too much reliance must not be placed upon them. To correct several reports which have appeared in the college press, we would say that the resolutions are still under the faculty is consideration, that undoubtedly they will be adopted with modifications, and that, more than this, no one outside of the faculty has any authority to say...