Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which many of the more important schools have formed, try to keep alive the school spirit and bring the graduates together; but in most cases they are far from successful, and none thinks of attending their meetings, even if he takes the trouble to join them after leaving school. Explain it as we will, the fact remains that most fellows do nothing about perpetuating the reminiscences of school life, although they act quite differently about their college life...
President McCosh, of Princeton, has a curious habit, when disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess...
...therefore meant nothing, In order to remedy this which seemed to be a defect in the constitution, a committee was appointed last spring to consider the advisability of making some change. The amendments made by the committee were accepted. We give below the several articles of the constitution which explain the object of the Union, the conditions of membership, and other information...
President Eliot proposes to give an address before the college next week, on the subject of college discipline and college government. He may also take occasion at this time to explain the attitude of the authorities upon the matter of compalsory prayers, and the regulation of athletics...
...following from yesterday's Advertiser will explain itself: Will you permit us through your columns to call attention of Harvard men to the projected Harvard Literary Monthly. In our opinion, the gentlemen who have this plan in charge possess, as a body, a greater amount, and a higher degree of literary ability and promise than any other group of students whom we have known as pupils; and it seems to us that their scheme will probably result in a publication whose literary value will be highly creditable to the college...