Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ignorance of current events is a reproach often justly cast upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting...
...meeting of the foot-ball men of the college, called yesterday for the purpose of electing a captain for the university team, no candidate was elected, no one receiving a majority of the votes cast. A second meeting will be held Thursday, at which, it is hoped, an election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...
...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
...puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast off a custom which must needs seem to all sober-minded men a disgrace to our college, binding on us as it does material observance of spiritual things. Let us have another petition...
...both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate the intellectual life of this college. Only the movements by associations, by clubs and societies...