Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot deny this externality of living. The talk and the writings of the College show it. Witness the imbecilities of men brought up apparently on moral pap. Their gentle nature shudders at the thought of the disgrace of being watched by proctors, and yet does not hesitate to allow this watchfulness to justify them in a deception and a lie. The poor creatures know no better, for they have no sovereign standard of conduct within themselves. But imagine the discomfort the tender souls will meet with in the world, where the existence of policemen and penitentiaries will be a constant...
WHEN we come back in the fall the societies which now occupy rooms in the buildings will have changed their quarters. The much-abused "shed" will be in position beside the hospital, and the new rooms will be fitted up. This change cannot fail to exert an influence on the character of the societies themselves, and so upon the habits of the men who are members of the societies. The change, in our opinion, will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over...
...absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...
...from to-day the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed at Springfield; an event which must attract, besides the friends of the two colleges, many spectators, because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect...
This is not necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...