Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first verse plainly refers to an equal facility in the performance of duties professional and ecclesiastical, and the last implies that the "thou" referred to was the first visible embodiment of a type which had previously been dimly comprehended. It must be a satire on some Yale instructor. No doubt some Yale man wrote it and lost it on his visit here with the Nine. It's written in blue ink, - of course a Yale man wrote...
...societies, it will be transferred to something else, and according as this something else is better or worse than the society, the influence of the change will be bad or good. Whatever may be thought of the effect of this change upon the societies, no one can doubt that they have now reached a crisis in their existence, but which way the crisis will carry them will not be discovered until some months after our life here begins again next fall...
...science, a circumstance which causes the majority of Freshmen to waste much time over studies which to them are useless and repugnant, to the neglect of the classics, and other subjects which would be at once more congenial, more useful, and more improving. Freshmen should study mathematics without doubt, but it is manifestly unnecessary to force them to study four different kinds, besides mechanics and chemistry. The effect of this system is twofold: to make the Freshman year very disagreeable and expensive to those students who have not mathematical minds, and to fill the pockets of private tutors, who expect...
...will be as much a sign of a loafer as to take them now is the sign of having done hard work. Many a man graduates at present without honors who has made excellent use of his time during the four years of his course. There can be no doubt that the standard of the University would be raised decidedly, if more men cared for academical distinction. The reason that they do not is to be found in the requirements which are imposed on those who wish to be considered candidates for honors. They are obliged to take so many...
...There can be no doubt that both Oxford and Cambridge would be able to get up two good crews, if they liked, and would stand the greatest possible chance of being first and second respectively, in an event the like of which has never been seen, and is not likely to be seen again...