Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE seems to be among many college graduates and students a disposition, fostered, no doubt, by the character of our most popular studies, to consider as rather unworthy our notice anything so simple and rudimental as the faculty of memory. We give a great deal of time, and wisely, to the languages, as a means of cultivating our analytical powers, and to mathematics and philosophy, to strengthen our reasoning faculties; but while so much of our attention is devoted to those pure sciences whose good results are to be sought for in the mind itself, and not in the subject...
Another reason of our shortness of memory is, without doubt, the practice of cramming for examinations. An impression made on the brain during the hours between midnight and morning is not likely to be of the most permanent character. The utmost ambition of some men seems to be to retain their information on any subject till twelve o'clock on the day of an annual; then, as if the pent-up knowledge was too strong for the brain that contained it, it hastens to dissipate itself and relieve the unaccustomed pressure. It is safe to say that not one tenth...
...will add still another attraction to the pleasure-giving metropolis. Only half the colleges represented had agreed to be bound by the action of their representatives, and to some of the other half that hot-bed of iniquity, Saratoga, was an insurmountable obstacle to their participation. We are in doubt as to the character of the proposed contests. Are we to be reminded of our childish days by hearing recited "Marco Bozzaris," or "Spartacus to the Gladiators," with the accustomed thunder of boyish eloquence? or are some youthful aspirants to throw at each other their views on the theory...
...opportunity of expressing our gratification at the fact, frequently alluded to in the speeches of the evening, of the perfect friendship and good-will which have existed between the two papers during the past year, and to express the hope, the fulfilment of which we see no reason to doubt, that the same harmony and good feeling may prevail in the future...
There was a doubt as to the power of the delegates to choose a referee and judges. It was thought that they possessed it, and, accordingly, a referee and five judges were chosen; but later, upon examining the minutes of the Hartford Convention, it has been found that the appointment of judges and referee rests with the captains of the competing crews. Therefore, the choice made at Springfield is of no effect. A committee to have the management of the Regatta Ball was also appointed, and consists of Mr. F. R. Appleton of Harvard, Mr. R. J. Cook of Yale...