Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the time of good sleighing, good skating, moderate winter weather and clear, moonlight evenings has come it behooves us to think of some of the sports which such a season naturally brings, in connection with the college. The college as a college may be said to have no winter sports at all; nothing to take the place of the autumnal foot-ball and the vernal base ball, nor yet the eternal tennis. A few years ago this fact was deplored, and a Hockey Club was founded to supply in a measure this lack. What...
...small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...
...must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice, which conditions, if I rightly understand them, may compactly be entitled those of intentionality, information, and persistence. Many assert also that boys come to college with no clear intentions, not knowing what they want, waiting to be told. It is true. The majority of the freshmen whom I have known in the last seventeen years have been, at entrance, quite deficient in serious aims. But from this fact I draw a conclusion quite opposite to the one suggested...
...satisfactory. What she has done for generations is to ignore them all and put nothing in their place to supply the public need. What a red flag is to a bull, the word "elocution" is to an average middle-aged official of more colleges than one. President Eliot's clear, ringing voice is meanly supplemented by the weak and indistinct utterances of a great multitude of his students when heard in public. If public oratory be a need in this republic, public oratory Harvard College must teach; so far as it is the public servant in the higher education...
...entire proceedings. There had been no thought of grandeur, no waste of time in elaborate preparations. The men of Harvard welcomed their guests and gave them of their best with abundant cordiality, but appealed to those who knew and esteemed it for its work's sake. It was clear that it did not appeal in vain and that it was strong in the affections of a vast body of its graduates, and in the kindly regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford and Cambridge, and think...