Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...case we win the race with Yale" is the spirit of the prize-ring. There is a deep-seated feeling in the breasts of every one to see our crew row with a crew from Cornell and win the race. But self-respect is not to be lost even for the sake of hurting the yell of the Ithacan College. As long as challenges such as those sent to England and then to Yale and Harvard emanate from Cornell, she must expect to have her invitations refused. It has been suggested that we ought not to be seriously affronted, because...
Here at once we see the result of special attention to our language. No superficial student could have written this sentence, and we even doubt whether those who have not had the advantage of special instruction in English at Neophogen College will fully understand it. We humbly acknowledge that we do not grasp the meaning in the words, "the whirlpool of commotion in the files of the nation"; but when the editors go on to say of the College Pen: "From its incipiency we have regarded it as one of the most important features of the school," we are able...
...conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place of Shopenhauer and Hartmann. The Committee think that Junior Logic might be removed to the Freshman year, and even to the preparatory schools, were they what they should be. In Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found (what...
...success a professor might accompany it to superintend the scientific arrangements, and aid the students in their studies during the long winters in camp. A successful termination of the enterprise would be of immense value to science, and the honor of a place on the successful sledge would surpass even that of pulling stroke on the 'Varsity. So much for the proposal. Without meaning to be taken seriously, the World has suggested something that might suit the inclinations of our athletic men. Such expeditions have repeatedly been made by Russian officers from Siberia, and if by Russian officers...
...universities is made a reward for special distinction. It is a goal which can be reached only by men of brains, but which lies in the reach of all men of brains, no matter what their circumstances may be. What is done for a man here? He may take even a summa cum laude, and receive no more reward from the University than the little distinction conferred by those three words. There is no fault to be found that this is so, but the cause of failure must be understood before the remedy for it can be applied...