Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...care. But certainly, while well trained in Greek and Latin verse composition they were lamentably deficient in many necessary branches of education. Not to trespass on your space, however, I would ask you and your readers to examine the whole bearing of Canon Farrar's remarks, and also his career as scholar and teacher before, drawing a conclusion adverse to the benefits of an intelligent and enlightened study of Greek and Latin as important factors in a liberal education...
Lately Sir Stafford Northcote was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh, over Mr. Otto C. Trevelyan, the author of the Life of Macaulay, and Professor Blackie. This choice of the students is much condemned, as Sir S. Northcote has shown no proofs, during his long career, of striking intellectual power...
...their best to aid the secretary, and it is only false pride or the poorest of poor taste for a man to refuse to do what is asked of him in behalf of the whole class. The class of Eighty-four has had a splendid career in college and it will be a great mistake if the records which it leaves in the hands of the secretary are not as full as it is possible for each member to make them. They may be sure that the secretary will ask for no useless information and certainly no one should...
...defeat of the freshman eleven at Andover on Wednesday last, probably brings vividly to '87 the fact that their eleven is not absolutely sure of victory whenever it plays. The usual career of victories which a freshman eleven experiences always goes far to give it over-confidence, and some such rude change as they have now received, is necessary to inspire a proper spirit of work in both eleven and class. While there is some little ground for excuse for their defeat on account of the wretched ground at Andover, the fact nevertheless remains that the eleven was clearly...
...Wednesday's HERALD-CRIMSON, there is a letter signed "Graduate" urging the formation of a Harvard congress or mock parliament,-an assembly of students for the discussion of political subjects with a view towards benefiting themselves, and making themselves more suited for a political career. The writer does not seem aware that there was once here a Harvard legislature, the aims of which were those in great measure of the congress, which he is so anxious to see formed, and that this legislature or congress failed miserably...