Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is not many years since that two courses in American History, a subject which has always interested an unusually large number of students, were offered by the college. At present we have only one, although that course is esteemed one of the most popular and useful in the college...
The New York Tribune, in commenting on President Eliot's report, says in regard to athletics, "that there is altogether too much of the professional, money-making character about many of these intercollegiate contests."
Then after a plea that the colleges should not increase the "noble army of smatterers" he goes on to discuss the question of college government in the following terms: "The plan of the college is of great importance; but of still greater importance, practically, is the question of its theory...
The Pall Mall Gazette thus comments on the English game of foot-ball :-"The heavy list of casualties reported from the two universities last Saturday will revive the protest against the dangerous character of foot-ball. And yet, in spite of all protests, the game increases in popularity, notably at...
College cheers are very indicative of the distinctive types of character which each college produces. The esprit du corps of any college is easily measured by its cheer. The simple form and the full, uniform beat of the Harvard rah is significant of the dignity, unity and self-restraint of...