Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather touched than dwelt upon, and above all the excellence of the style and general treatment deserve high praise. The writer has his imagination, great as it is, under such control that it pictures only the dramatic, thus avoiding that retailing of what is simply extraordinary that is so common a fault with people who indulge their imagination very freely...
...notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children exceeds every other class." "Harvard University now distributes to students...
...athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between the present standards and those of the time when Harvard was a local institution After a man has been here some time he is influenced by oral traditions, and, among other things, boys...
...committee on the American School believe that it is desirable, for the interest of both schools, that their respective buildings should be in close proximity. They are assured of the cordial co-operation of the committee on the British School in their common work, and it is their confident hope that the advantages afforded by either school to its pupils will be freely shared by the pupils of both...
...Many have been the complaints from the graduates of all the colleges that the teams did not kick enough. "Just think what you gain by a kick!" is a very common phrase, and the spectators are sure to raise a shout as the ball rises over the heads of the players, and goes-to the other side. Harvard kicked very little this year. She might have kicked more; she could scarcely have kicked less. Princeton has always been famous for good kickers, and she had a good one this year in her full-back. Yale kicked more than either. There...