Word: even
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boat Clubs has begun work of any kind. The example set by Holyoke certainly deserves the imitation of the other clubs. Twelve men have been at work in the Gymnasium for some weeks, and eight more are to begin after the Semiannuals. The other clubs have as yet not even opened a book for the names of those who wish to try for the crews. The races last year were so poor that few went to see them, and so little training had been done that those who rowed were wholly lacking in enthusiasm in their work...
...year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies...
...elect Latin 8 or Latin 9. Where fifty men are packed into a room of the size of U. 24, the amount of fresh air left at the end of ten minutes for each man to breathe is barely sufficient to support life, and under such trying circumstances even Tacitus grows commonplace and Plautus prosy. The substitution of a room as large as U. 16 would be hailed with rejoicing...
...determine what is the safest course to steer. No doubt you think my advice hardly flattering, inasmuch as it implies that you are unacquainted with so much as the A B C of the man-of-the-world's alphabet; but when you have discovered how thoughtless even men with a very fair share of brains are apt to be when they have just entered college, you will not wonder at my brotherly solicitude...
...laws of Political Economy are at the basis of all financial enterprises, both public and private. No government or business man can afford to ignore them. And yet young men are to be given a certificate of having received a liberal education from Harvard College without having studied even the principles of a science which will underlie almost every financial transaction in which they may be concerned...