Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college activity and college life that is open to him. There is much to learn, during the four years here, that no book, or lecture, or instructor can teach. It is a miniature world which is to prepare men for the greater world outside, and if one holds aloof now from these cares and interests, and organized activities, he will get from his college life only a part of its benefits. Besides, there are later in college life other organizations and other honors, which one is not likely to get if he holds aloof now. And to finish with...
...degrees entered Hopkins Hall and took their places. President Gilman's address to the students graduating urged that they should encourage popular education, doing what they could to advance the interest of the common school; that they should be interested in politics, have opinions, scan principles, and not stand aloof because of the cry against parties or politicians; that they should be afraid of error, never be afraid of truth, and never suffer themselves to speak with disdain of faith, for this is the beginning and the end of all science...
...will be numerous changes in the English department which will give it the which will give it the position of importance that it deserves. Professor Child's course, the present English I., is to be made into a two years course similar to his Shakespeare course, which change will aloof more, thoroughstudy of the authors treated. Such a study as this is one that will attract a number of students who wish to make thorough study of their own language In addition to this, Professor Hill's old course is to be revived this year under Doctor Royce. This course...
...letter to the Chicago Tribune gives the following bright description of Dr. Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when...
Those who favor the scheme argue that Harvard by participating in such a contest would show her good will toward and her fellow feeling with other colleges, and thus do away with any idea that she is standing aloof from the rest; but we think the other colleges will fully understand and appreciate our motives for not entering such a contest. Besides, Harvard, by her interest and partial co-operation in the Inter-Collegiate Press Association, has shown that she stands ready to encourage and further inter-collegiate relations wherever she can consistently with her own interests...