Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into fair candidates for the eleven. Why would it not be an excellent plan to have games between the dormitories ? Hollis and Stoughton would certainly be about equally matched, or nearly so. Then let Hollis and Stoughton set the ball a rolling by having a foot ball game right away. And it might be added that no knowledge of the science of the game is required for the two teams to have a right good time...
...ball was kicked fair. The ball was once more forced upon the unwilling Harvard men's end, and amid a general back and forth movement was secured by Lamar, who crossed the line with it. Bemis followed him and before he could make a touchdown, had taken it away and touched down for safety. Time was called at once. The score standing 36 to 6 in Princeton's favor...
...softness, still there is much lacking if he does not realize that a poor instructor in the best of courses may do him harm. How often we have heard students say of a certain course that they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often...
...natural interest between instructor and students, that unless a bond of sympathy exists between them. time is wasted in taking this particular course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher...
...Beside the wonderful collection of valuable specimens that is seen by visitors at Peabody museum, the basement of that building is full to overflowing with valuable matter, some arranged and packed away for want of room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received. The pieces of skeletons, hundreds in number for each bone, are arranged with infinite care and labor. Several men are constantly employed at this work. Two collectors are kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time...