Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very interesting and factions letter giving an account of the trials and tribulations of a West Point cadet, written by a-former member of the junior class at Harvard. The rigorous training of a cadet at a military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service. In a few days...
...scientific age; everything is now governed by rule, everything is bound by precision. And in the strides that the world has made during the past century, it is strange to see how our athletics have evolved from a sort of chaos into sharply defined, well regulated sciences, requiring the action of mind as well as of body to perfect them...
...cannot control their legitimate action as jurymen...
...president, by one of the members, or by any student or body of students, and it is then their duty to investigate the case with reasonable promptness, obtaining their information by whatever honorable means may appear most desirable. They may consult with the president, but he cannot control their action. Having formed an opinion, they decide upon a verdict of fact, which must be agreed to by a majority, and which state the grade of the offense, together with such aggravating or extenuating circumstances as have been allowed to qualify this verdict...
...blame. Attention is called to this bad bubit of game of the men among us again, and again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader or lecturer, and draws away the attention of the audience? A constant stream of men coming late often mars the first fifteen or twenty minutes of these public meetings in Sever 11, for the hard floors and wooden chairs of that lecture room do not permit...