Word: depend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rest of Europe that they are allowed to exist at all. Nominally there is a university Senate and a Rector at its head. In reality the universities are under the direct control of the Czar. It is he who rules us. It is upon his words that our privileges depend. With his whims change the whole system and method of instruction. Not only this, but he places a military officer whom he calls Curator, in general charge over us, and through him directs the minutest details with an iron hand. The instructors' chairs are not indeed bought and sold...
...discipline in conduct and study. There are two opposing systems. The one considers the student still a boy, hedges him about with close paternal government, stimulates him with merit-marks for successful study, and punishes him with demerits for ill-conduct; ranks him by examinations, rewards him with prizes dependent on his marks, and sends him out with a certificate of excellence. The other patterns the freedom of the German universities (which do not correspond to our colleges), would treat the student as a man responsible only to himself, permits him to be present or absent at his choice...
...Boston Advertiser of Dec. 28, takes the Intercollegiate Rowing Association to task for accepting the offer of the hotel and railroad men of Saratoga to provide board and passes for the crews, and says that college "athleticism" will be very objectionable if it is to depend upon hotel men and their followers for its patronage. This hardly seems just. In these days of enormous expenditures for athletics, anything which will honorably lighten the burden of the students will meet with approbation. Boat-races are a species of contest which do not make any money returns to the crews for their...
...unfairly in the race. The offer is made to all alike. They simply select Saratoga because it will cost them less to row the race there then elsewhere, and their fellow students will be thereby relieved of a corresponding amount of subscriptions. Besides they are not to depend upon the hotel men for patronage. They will not row the race to please and benefit a set of businessmen, such as hotel keepers, but to have a chance of contending for honorable laurels against other colleges. They expect to be backed by their own fellow students and friends. The race...
...proven, we believe we would earnestly recommend that a great deal more care be bestowed on it so as to ensure perfect safety beyond doubt. We escaped an appalling disaster by so little that it ought to be a sufficient warning in the future for one department not to depend on another's watchfulness, and so suspend investigation until after the accident has happened. All in all, we have every reason to be thankful that it was no worse. The outcome has been so much better than anyone at the time supposed was possible, that we gladly allow the matter...