Word: affections
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...abroad and row her, and we must go entirely without reference to winning or losing our race or races in this country. With Yale we must row in any case; with Columbia and Cornell probably. Suppose that Yale, Columbia, and Cornell were all to beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means essential, as Oxford was not challenged to row the "champion" American crew, but simply Harvard University. This...
...thing more wanted to increase the chances of success; that is, that the Nine should have the bodily support of a number of Harvard men at the next Yale game. Every one should consider that his presence at or absence from New Haven on the 24th will affect the result of the game to a considerable extent. Each man who cares to see Harvard victorious should make a point of helping to win the game, by being present at it. Doubtless the same advantageous terms will be again offered by the railway company, so that the journey to Yale will...
...competent and faithful, and his duties are performed in the most conscientious manner. But this does not prevent our condemnation of his system of marking, which we regard as absolutely wrong. Solid substantial instruction is the main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot affect the student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound...
...committed were generally due to the obscurity of his meaning. None of them vitiated our defence of true independence. For example, our error in quoting "Ossip" as calling not merely his imaginary independent man but every one who believes in complete independence "a disappointed aspirant for popularity," did not affect our subsequent arguments, which were not directed to prove the falsehood of our misquotation, but to defend independence and its necessary accompaniment, - the clear expression, when proper, of disapprobation. Next, he says that he merely stated where we said he argued a certain proposition. Any reader will see that...
...good things of the day to occur in such rapid succession that no visitor would have time to grow weary. Furthermore, ladies do not like to prepare their toilets at sunrise; if they do dress then, they will no doubt become so jaded during the day as to seriously affect their enjoyment of the evening. I might also add that it is hardly right to compel a Senior to receive his friends at an hour which he has usually given to sleep...