Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college life. For, although one generally prefers to decide for himself what shall be his profession or specialty, it is by no means a simple matter to arrange all his work and studies in college in such a way as will best fit him for his future career. The majority usually find it an uncertain undertaking to satisfactorily inform themselves of the precise natures of the different courses, as well as to choose those that are best suited to themselves. And so it comes that men are often more led to complain of than rejoice in the freedom of selection...
...gaining the direct influence of the best thought of Germany, besides attaining a wide experience in all parts of his fatherland. It will be a great thing for American scholarship when the youth of America are able to do the same - spending, say, in the course of their university career, successive terms in New England, the Middle States, the sunny South, the great Northwest and on the Pacific coast. The broadening influence of such a course upon the young American of the future would be inestimable. He would really know his country, and be an American in the highest...
...order to avoid personalities - shows such an ignorance of facts that a little correction of his statements is only fair to all parties. His principle point is that "Lacrosse" (when compared with tennis) "is a new institution." Had he taken pains to investigate further back than his own short career in College, he would have discovered that Lacrosse had obtained a firm foothold here before either tennis or cricket; that at first the field back of Divinity Hall was used for the game; then, when the planting of trees rendered this no longer serviceable, Jarvis and Holmes; and that...
...behavior that has heretofore signalized these occasions. But we believe rather in trusting to '85's sense of what is decent and just. Let her only have strength of mind enough to take the initiative in foregoing this discreditable practice of former Freshman classes, and she will commence her career by gaining the respect and admiration of the whole College, and establish a line of conduct which future classes will not be slow to follow...
CARLYLE was a Scotchman, but his literary career must be of peculiar interest to Americans. If ever it was true that a prophet is not recognized in his own country, it was true of Carlyle. For a long time he could find no publisher for his "Sartor Resartus," and it had to be published piecemeal in a magazine. It was left to a Harvard graduate to collect the scattered papers into a book, which thus established his fame. His miscellaneous Essays, contributed to various English magazines, were collected by the same loving hand and first published in this country...