Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conference between students and faculty, the Senate, judging from our correspondent, has not been so successful. He says, "unlike every similar body, probably, the Senate has the sympathy of the faculty to a greater degree than that of the students." This is unfortunate. A conference committee, in order to accomplish the end it has in view, must have the utmost confidence and sympathy of the students at large, and the moment it ceases to have this, it fails in its object. As a means of communication, it is not of so much consequence what the faculty may think...
...which the senate is merely a phase, was at first as thoroughly misunderstood at Amherst as it has been since throughout the college world, and the senate shared the same disapprobation and ridicule. The old disfavor is, of course, rapidly dying out; the senate is no longer expected to accomplish impossible things, and depreciated because it does...
...pass too hasty a judgment on this proposed experiment. It is, without doubt, a firm opinion among the students, that some method, can be devised that will obviate the annual conflicts of faculty, athletic committee and students. It is felt by many that a radical change only can accomplish this end. It will, however, take time and careful consideration to hit upon this much desired plan. A body made up of members of the faculty and students, governed by rules growing out of the report decided on by the preliminary conference, will afford a proper medium whereby a scheme...
...evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from the seeds sown in the beginning, what need is there that we should till the field of life with our labor or water it with our tears? Let us watch and be patient! we shall reap...
...fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that...