Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, in an essay published in the Century of this month under the title of "What is a Liberal Education makes the statement: "The great majority of men in this country who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated." Such a statement from such a source well deserves a thorough consideration. The cry "are our young men being educated for the work of the twentieth century or the seventeenth?" takes upon itself a new significance. It is no longer a question of whether Mr. Adams is right, but of the true meaning of a liberal education. There...
...become practically useless, and will probably remain so for some time. As a result, all those tennis players who owned courts on that field are now obliged to seek elsewhere. The number of the courts which are left in college is very small. Under the existing rules, these courts belong to a few men who have the first right of playing on them during certain hours of the day. The only excuse that was offered in the past for their monopoly no longer exists. It can not be urged that the owners of these courts have gone to any expense...
...with a blind determination to make forty men immortal whether there are forty worthy of it or not? Indeed, unless the standard of excellence required in the Academy be very high, our first men of letters will deem it no honor. much less an assurance of immortality to belong...
...influence in the higher tone that pervades the university. Unfortunately the circle of such men as Ezra Abbott and Benjamin Pierce is but small at Harvard and every day it is growing smaller. Those that still remain may go at any moment and we cannot help feeling that we belong to the privileged few who yet may know them...
Second round was about the same as the first, Woodbury leading heavily, and Smith showing skill in countering. The fighting was about even, the round did not seem to belong to either. The final round was hotly contested. Woodbury commenced the fighting as usual by following his former tactics, and fighting hardest at the beginning. The round was in favor of smith. In the close fighting Smith showed himself the better boxer of the two, but Woodbury seemed to be the hardest fighter. It was a very good contest. In deciding the bout, the judges disagreed as to the winner...