Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...color, but rather a line, it is true, easily distinguished, but here and there shaded off even into entirely different colors. These are not the words of the address, only the ideas as the writer understood them. Strict specialism during a college course was decried and declared to belong only to the professional school. Slight divergences from the bee line were encouraged, as being likely to accomplish more successfully the purpose of a college education...
...almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar and the frand alike, the genius and the crank, are very soon detected...
...have no wish to claim for Harvard an honor in athletics which does not belong fairly to her; on the other hand it seems to me simply an act of justice to give to '87 the credit which is due it for giving Harvard the right to say that there is at least one class in college which has won the freshman series from Yale...
There seems to have been a tendency to avoid "live" subjects for discussion. In spite of the strong political feeling at the time, questions connected with politics are rare. Once the question "Is the motto 'To the victors belong the spoils' a good one for a political party," was debated and decided in the negative. Only three questions relating to slavery were chosen for debate, and the debate on one of them was in definitely postponed on the evening appointed for it. The question "Are negroes an inferior race of beings?" was twice discussed, and each time was decided...
...cast upon the dramatic profession on account of the short-comings of the lower stratum of actors, Mr. Irving closed by saying, "I have been an actor for nearly thirty years, and what I have told you is the fruit of these years' experience. The calling to which I belong is worthy of the suppot and sympathy of all intelligent people...