Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In your issue of the 12th inst, you published an editorial criticising the reported action of the Yale faculty in regard to Prof. E. R. Thompson's course of lectures at Yale on Protection. The error into which so reputable a paper as the CRIMSON has fallen, and the gross injustice which it does Yale, whether intentionally or not, has led your correspondent to gain the official facts in the matter and beg leave to ask for their publication...
...adage "Necessity is the mother of invention," than a consideration of the petitions sent in to the faculty. They average several dozen a week and cover a multitude of ailments from "cold feet" to incipient consumption. The faculty in its analogous position of liberal thought and conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty is callous to excuses of over study, they yield at once to the blandishments...
...consequence of the respirating needs, the heart acts. But it is in part the result of the compression of the capillaries of the muscles by the contracting fibres, and also the result of the compression of the arterial trunks by the rigid muscles. The total resistance to the action of the heart is thereby considerably increased. From carefully compiled statistics of the English University crews, not only are the men not injured, but actually improved in health, if we may judge from the fact that their years are increased. But length of days is not everything. Ruined health from...
Princeton will be a University within five years by a recent action of its authorities...
...this is, that men confound what they would like to be with what they ought to be. The great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort of action, and it may unhappily be so in this case. The question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success in the different things...