Word: useful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MEPH. I ask thee to use, in return for this favor...
...sentimental over the subject. Still, although it was annoying to find the books of reference in the hands of those who had less right to them than the Harvard undergraduate, it was a trifling matter; and besides, a limited number of outsiders had long been permitted the use of this Harvard institution. Next they appeared at the evening readings, and, side by side with undergraduates, they follow the story of oedipus and his troubles; still no word was spoken. Finally, they receive their instruction in the College buildings, and as it would be a trifle too much to turn undergraduates...
...towards co-education, which the writer traces from allowing women to go to the evening readings, and permitting them to attend these lectures, we think that he overestimates the concessions made by the College. Is it not more probable that in the cases mentioned, and in allowing ladies to use a laboratory on days when students do not, the authorities have been actuated simply by courtesy, and by the spirit of liberalism which has done so much for the College during the past few years? From the point of view of the writer, there is, undoubtedly, a certain indecision...
...shell except for two weeks before the class races, if it were an understood thing that the class races were intended to prepare the Freshman oar for the 'Varsity, with such advice as the rowing authorities should not hesitate to give, the Freshman shell could be in use, in a year of average mildness, at least six weeks before the class races...
...rowed Columbia, the only man who would have been of use to the 'Varsity was the man who was chosen last year as substitute. '82 had no other man who could have been of use to the 'Varsity last year. This was due more to the chance of having poor rowing material in the class than to the omission of the Columbia race...