Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel building where the library was kept. Soon some of the tutors formed a class, to enjoy his reading and exposition of Aristophanes. Then a Hartford publisher got his grammar printed at the Cambridge Press, and at last Professor Felton drew him to Harvard and kept him there...
...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
Throughout the evening we did not see an unseemly action. Nothing but the most genuine good feeling and joviality pervaded the whole assembly. The professors entered into the spirit of the occasion, smoked and drank beer, and, although they did not stay as late, seemed to enjoy themselves as much as the students. Still, we are informed that less important "Commers" are apt to be rather noisier and later affairs than the one we have described. About half past twelve, the Commers broke up after singing a Latin song and the students dispersed...
...school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory school and two to our college and we have the English system. The universities control parishes. There are also fellowships with very liberal incomes which the graduate may enjoy, wherever his home, whatever his occupation. So that the pecuniary inducements are far different from our college honors. Then in aristocratic England a university man has great political and social advantages which in a democratic country like America count for very little...
...trouble such an action may cause, it hardly seems possible that any one can refuse his room if he gives the matter a moment's kindly thought. The entire college is indebted to the senior class for the pleasant features of class day, whether any one person cares to enjoy them or not, and the only way in which to repay this kindness is for all those who possess desirable quarters to permit of their being used when they are needed. It is very seldom that any damage whatever is done to a room, but if there should...