Word: careers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...every member of the class to see that those men who can come forward in this matter should do so. In the course of a few weeks, there will be a freshman athletic meeting on Jarvis field, and eighty-seven will there make the beginning of its athletic career. There is an old saw which says briefly, "a work well begun, is a work half done," and indeed if the meeting be a successful one, it will give the athletics of the class an impetus which will carry them well along for the ensuing four years...
...notwithstanding the enormous sums devoted to it, in the opinion of all unprejudiced Englishmen it does but little for science; manifestly because most of these young men, although they are the pick of the students, and in the most favorable conditions possible for scientific work, have in their student career not come sufficiently in contact with the living spirit of inquiry, to work on afterward on their own account, and with their own enthusiasm...
...that he should be fully aware of the fact that the college has more than once shown its emphatic disapproval of any such expeditions. We had thought that this silly custom had died out with the flasco of last year, and wish to warn '87 against beginning its college career with its revival, Harvard is gradually reaching a point from which it can present to the college world a university free from the childish effervescence which characterize the smaller colleges. Hazing and the kindred exhibitions are fast becoming things of the past. Let '87 take care that she should...
...with that which is real and positive and pressing. That contact exercises an imperceptible but a no less substantial influence. Those who are upon the surface of the current float with the current without effort or motion for themselves. That kind of mental training which aids most the future career, frequently does not come from books or from the teaching of professional instructors. It is acquired as the child learns, from observation, intuitively. Such advantages pre-eminently exist in a great city...
...each other. If a high standard of morals exists on the part of leaders, great benefit results to all others. The four years spent at college are an important epoch in the life of a student. Impressions are made to which the memory looks back through the whole future career. Friendships are formed which abide. Where a college exists by itself, students are thrown more together. These impressions are stronger. The friendships which are formed are more earnest. The college life makes a larger part of the life of the individual. All these are advantages which cannot be gainsaid...