Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strongest argument in its favor is the general approval it would receive from the students, while its practicability is proven by its present success at Harvard, and by its past history at Yale. In the first place the interest of the students must be aroused before any good can come. That one man alone cannot hold the student's attention and keep up their interest has been shown by the indifferent spirit of the past few years, while the interest awakened at Harvard speaks well for the itinerant method...
...Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized...
...limitations, if helpfully congruous, 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...
...departure to Europe, is significant in many ways. That he allows himself this separation shows that he feels the university to be in a much more prosperous position than in the past; and that now it is committed to a course which must remain unchanged for some time to come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express the hopes of the whole university, that safety and pleasure may attend President Eliot while abroad...
...thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely to be popular among the hundreds of other men who have not discovered, as yet, this "uncongenial aristocratic, and moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this unfortunate writer. But to come to the most serious part of this newspaper article; impelled not by prejudice, perhaps, but by ignorance, this person is not content with attempting to defame the personal character of certain of the most respected and upright members of the senior and junior classes, but has attempted in a closing...