Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those who feel that the apotheosis of the athlete has gone too far; he has been set on too high a pedestal. The fault is not with the young men themselves. Indeed, what impresses me the most is, that in spite of all this publicity and laudation they should bear themselves with such becoming and attractive modesty. How is it possible for any young man to see things in their true proportions, to feel that athletic prowess though a fine and praiseworthy thing, is by no means the first and most important thing in college life, when he may read...
...clock each morning, and it is essential that they should be made before this time. The demands on the department have so greatly increased that it is necessary to systematize the work in order that students may be looked after promptly. It is well for students to bear in mind that in the evening a fever is at its greatest height, and any one having fever as shown by chills or "fever" in the morning, should report immediately for he is liable to be worse in the afternoon rather than better. This is necessary as reports later than...
...persons like "Senior" has not yet proved itself of any worth by the formation of scrub teams, so beneficial to the development of a sport in its early stages, the Oxfords, in so far as they are Harvard men, must by virtue of the college of their origin still bear the burden of representing Harvard in ice polo...
Previous to 1869 very little attention was paid to the relations of Harvard College to the different preparatory schools. But President Eliot realized at once the important position which secondary schools bear to the college. He conferred with the heads of the different preparatory schools as to how the relations between school and college could be made more agreeable. As a result of these conferences many changes were made in the requirements for admission to college as well as in the course of study in the secondary schools...
...torment which these men strove so successfully to paint and these characteristics of mankind have always had a most human interest, not that man might revel in the sufferings of others, but that he might learn how another has endured what he in his turn may have to bear...