Word: abler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years of their college course. Then follows, in the majority of cases...
...thus look over, or set aside a man who would fill the post better. This conduct discourages and disgusts many hard-working men from trying for positions, and they cease to train. While an average man may do as good as need be, that is no reason why an abler and better man should not have a fair trial; moreover a man must do better than is necessary to do his college honor. Again the captains, - and this is especially the case with freshman captains - have not had much experience in controlling and commanding college men so that they...
...their coaches; why not the nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact any branch of learning unaided by an instructor, he would soon come to a stop and make no advance whatever without professional aid. Unless students learned their knowledge from older and abler men, fit to impart it, there would be but few who would educate themselves unaided. This fact might be applied to athletics as well as to classics and the result would be as gratifying in the former as it has proved to be in the latter. The influence...
...more space and attention than before to reports and discussions of college news. Indeed, the college column is coming to be a recognized feature among the more enterprising metropolitan journals; and if the college man does not receive recognition directly in this way the increasing deference shown by the abler papers to the ways of thought and the subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable. The New York Times and the Evening Post and the Boston Advertiser are familiar examples of this latter tendency. The regular weekly "College Chronicle" of the New York World is a department...