Word: statements
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters is not now and never was an aim of Harvard men? I think that on reflection we shall find the statement in Scribner's not only incorrect but without foundation...
...need hardly refer to a recent article in the Advocate which laments the falling off of mathematical men and the growing popularity of the classics to corroborate this statement, but I would remark that the study of mathematics offers little to those who are not particularly qualified for it (except a discipline of the mind, which the analysis of the Latin Subjunctive supplies), while the study of Belles-Lettres gives a man that culture and intellectual scope which this age demands, even if it does not make him a poet or historian...
...first article censures the actions of some professors with regard to voluntary recitations, and ends with the statement: "In some courses voluntary recitations are now simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...
...been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into the statement, "Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken for granted that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard is not a theological school, although in prayers and compulsory church...