Word: blows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is by no means a blow at the universities. It means rather that the field of watchfulness has been enlarged and that this will result in better trained students for the universities to deal with. To be sure the whole movement marks at present only a tendency, and yet the naturalness and reasonableness of it is guarantee of the powerful influence which it will exert in the future...
...dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...
Admitting the evil, which seems perfectly obvious, how is it to be done away with? We have said that no rule can justly be passed. The remedy cannot be a sudden one, subverting the whole system at one blow. It seems to us that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These...
...recent action of President Dwight of Yale has given a fatal blow to the plans of those who for over a year have been trying to have compulsory attendance at chapel done away in favor of the voluntary system. President Dwight has decided to build an extension to Battelle Chapel which will increase the present accommodations by nearly fifty per cent and thus prevent the possibility of limited seating capacity from becoming an argument against the present system of compulsory chapel attendance. Arrangements for the work have already been concluded with J. C. Cady & Co. of New York...
...Harvard Union on Friday came to us too late for anything more than a mere statement of what had happened. We cannot but feel that, on the whole, the vote to disband and reorganize on totally different principles was a wise measure. It comes as a rather hard blow to certain members of the Union, to all in fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard, the character...