Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form of beginning work; there is no feeling in the students that it is a religious act to attend prayers. Such attendance is a matter of discipline, not of worship; it is a thing people are afraid to stop, not one they are able to defend. The force that keeps prayers up in their present form is inertia. If laziness has some part in the opposition...
...have seen that oxygen for the most part is taken in through the lungs, and the act which they perform taking it in is called respiration. At the back of the mouth are two passages leading downward, the one in front going to the lungs. The act of breathing requires that this trachea, as it is called, should be kept open all the time, so there are placed in its walls rings of cartilage which are incomplete in some part of their circumference. The epiglottis, fastened to the back part of the tongue keeps food from falling into the windpipe...
...would necessarily happen, they would get some one else to write for them; but this is really a superficial objection, for such a thing is even now possible in such courses as sophomore and junior themes. There are not many men who would be guilty of such an act, and in any case such men are not the ones who are much benefited by their sojourn at Harvard, nor the ones whom the college wishes to attract. The real burden would come on the instructors, especially in the popular courses, for a system of monthly theses would entail a tremendous...
...most cases they are far from successful, and none thinks of attending their meetings, even if he takes the trouble to join them after leaving school. Explain it as we will, the fact remains that most fellows do nothing about perpetuating the reminiscences of school life, although they act quite differently about their college life...
With regard to Mr. Ferris I should say that the university could certainly find a man who would fill the position of instructor in sparring with greater credit to all concerned. I do not think that it is enough that such an instructor should act as your correspondent of Wednesday suggests "in a fair and gentlemanly manner" in his classes. The man who take the position of a paid instructor of Harvard University has a reputation beside his own to maintain, and that, as yet, Mr. Ferris has shown no signs that he is capable of doing...