Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...profession of journalism is regarded. A few days since one of our exchanges made use of some figures to show the difference the last few years have made, and the result was surprising. The same feeling can be traced here. College-bred men from one cause or another naturally drift into journalism, and every year the change is becoming more marked. Whether or not the story of the "Western editor" and his "fortune" is a myth, nevertheless we cannot but think that some such move as he proposed could be most advantageously made. The foundation of a chair of practical...
...last Saturday's meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association in New York, the new athlete regulations were vigorously discussed by representatives of nearly all the colleges present. The general drift of opinion was nearly unanimously opposed to the new move, and the expression of such opinion was explicit and emphatic enough...
...reasons for believing that in so important a matter action taken in mass meeting of the entire college would be likely to have more weight with the faculty and probably elsewhere, than the secret petition of the officers of our athletic societies, however accurately such petition may express the drift of college sentiment...
...where I am I propose that students shall cultivate habits of regularity and attention. I do not believe there is any education or discipline of mind in a student's staying away from his duty a week or a month and them cramming for his examination. And yet the drift of college discipline today is in that direction. But the accumulation of knowledge will come easier thorough discipline...
...from the fact that he unfortunately knew too much about it. It is much easier to lecture upon a topic on which one is not fully conversant than upon one with which great personal familiarity leads him to continually suggest a variety of incidents and illustrations which tend to drift away from the main subject. The House of Commous in England is the center of political life, in it, is vested by far the larger share of the power of the government, and as it is republican in its character and representative of the people, it is of course...