Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I looked over, I cannot tell with how much satisfaction, the books that have been placed on the new cases in the reading room of the library. I was especially pleased to see the writings of Browning, Rossette, Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith, about which most of us know so very little, put where a student can not help laying his hand upon them...
...been suggested that the track might be injured if this project were carried out; we cannot see, however, that ice formed by flooding the field would cause any greater damage than the ice that forms there naturally every winter. We express the opinion of a large number of men in college when we say that some organization should take this matter in hand immediately...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your correspondent of Saturday has stated so admirably what has long seemed to me the cardinal defects in our system of athletics that I cannot but say a word in his support. I think it may safely be said that we train the few at the expense of the many; and thus in athletics as everywhere else produce a little group of specialists. Now this might be an excellent policy were our specialists always to remain with us. But their stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they...
...determination to give to the university his superb historical library. This collection of books, the gathering of which has been Mr. White's lifework, consists of about 30,000 volumes, 10,000 valuable pamhlets and many manuscripts. It has cost more than $100,000, and its present value cannot be estimated. Remarkable are the collections upon French, German, English and American history; upon the middle ages, the Jesuits and the inquisition; the early history of the natural sciences and of political economy. With the French revolution it is especially rich. The collection of periodicals includes complete sets of the famous...
...they have not yet learned to do, that is to keep time at the chest-weights. This may seem a matter of slight consequence to the men; but they will learn that time at the chest-weights is fully as important as time at the machines. If a man cannot keep time in one case, he certainly cannot in the other. It is not inability, however,; that causes the trouble, but the fact; that the men are occupied in gazing around the gymnasium instead of attending to their business as they should. Such work cannot go on much longer...