Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor Bocher replied briefly, speaking of the future of our University and of our paper. Professor Palmer was the second to speak, in response to a toast to the Faculty. He spoke with much warmth of the need of a better understanding between professor and student, pointing out the fact that the feeling which still exists, though yearly diminishing, is due quite as much to the student's idea that his instructor is not a student like himself, only at an advanced stage, as to the attitude of his instructor toward him. He reminded us that we are too likely...
...Bachelors know all that is professedly required of them? Can they read Homer or Virgil with ease? Are they really acquainted with French, Greek, and Roman literature? Have they ideas at all accurate of philosophy or history? We could wish it were so, but it is scarcely ever the fact. Since the degree of bachelor is indispensable, since it is the only entrance to all the liberal pursuits, it happens that the obtaining of the degree becomes the principal object. The great aim is not to become educated, but to pass one's baccalaureat. The subjects not demanded...
...That this idea is not a new one is proved by the occasional contributions we receive from members of the Faculty, one of which we are glad to publish in another column; but that such an idea ever occurs to the large majority of the instructors is not the fact. Now, with all due allowance for the trivial character of a College paper, and the unavoidable demands on the time and labor of an instructor, we still think that this is a medium of communication which should be used. That the College papers are not better than they...
...BELIEVE it is not generally known among the undergraduates, that the annual games of baseball between the Yale and Harvard Nines are, this year, to be played at Saratoga. The ground for this belief is the fact, that no comment on the proposed action has been heard from the students, who certainly are deeply interested in the matter...
...writer that the crews are seriously injured by the inordinate praise that is given to them; and he pats J. Bull on the back approvingly, because his Highness has shown less interest in the race of this year than in those of former years. The critic entirely overlooks the fact that the race was a foregone conclusion, there not being the slightest doubt of the result under ordinary circumstances...