Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...country had even some slight knowledge of their new business. A regular course including the leading principles of this most interesting and fascinating science of war if given by the college or some society each winter would draw considerable audiences. The plan is not a difficult one to accomplish. Quite a number of well educated officers are stationed at the forts in Boston harbor whose services could easily be procured. It is a subject to which other institutions have thought it worth their while to pay attention. Why should not Harvard take an active interest as well...
...their last meeting. This petition was not published at the time because the Faculty wished to keep the affair quiet, and it was thought best, in order to gain the desired end, to work with the Faculty as far as possible; but seeing that such a course would to accomplish the wished for result it has been determined to make the petition known to the whole body of students. This petition was written very hastily, and is given below just as it was handed in to the Faculty...
...influence in the formation of regulations. This is one of the points upon which the faculty and the undergraduates seem to differ. It is perhaps desirable, as the faculty appear to wish, to lessen the element of competition. But can the faculty do this and at the same time accomplish what is generally accepted as their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon...
...hear Gen. Francis A. Palfry on "Gaines Mill and the Peninsular Campaign." The purpose which McClellan had in view when he entered upon the disastrous campaign of the Peninsular was the crushing of the Confederate forces massed in front of Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service, and are approximately correct. McClellan had taken months to organize and discipline...
...recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree of excellence in these...