Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...generous alumnus, also, has devoted a considerable sum to musical instruction. His gift is to be applied to the training of Class Glee Clubs. which are to have the pleasure and benefit of being trained by Mr. Schnecker and Prof. West. These Class Glee Clubs cannot fail of being a source of great pleasure and amusement to the fortunate members, and will also be a most excellent school for candidates for the College Glee Club, which, with the advantage of having so many candidates from which to make a selection, ought to be the equal of the Glee Club...
...than they have been in past years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present. Any course that attempts to give even general idea of Emerson one week, and Carlyle the next can only fail to accomplish its purpose. No cast iron list of ten writers can give any idea of their literary periods when the study of the list is to be finished in ten weeks. If the list admitted additions, the work in the Rhetoric would at once become a source of interest...
These different methods of study need not be carried on entirely apart from one another. If there is an opportunity for younger students to make investigations, as in local history, they should be encouraged in this pursuit, for it cannot fail to give them a lifelong interest in the study of history. In confirmation of this view, Justin Winsor related his youthful experience in collecting information from town records, from the inscriptions on gravestones, and from the traditions of aged people of the neighborhood...
...possessed by certain other brothers in the trade,-nevertheless are unsuccessful in their work, just because they lack the necessary natural qualifications. Men who combine both qualifications, namely, natural ability and thorough knowledge, most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake to do what even their bare knowledge should forbid. Some men, who advertise themselves as tuors, are like that class which seems to think it can get money without labor or ability. They don't recognize that if they want good pay for tutoring they must...
...sports; but can our college faculties remedy an evil whose causes lie in the decline in college sentiment? Undue waste of time they can easily and properly prevent by maintaining a rigorous standard of scholarship; into the rest of the field they can hardly venture, and prohibitory legislation must fail to touch the evil, while arousing resentment. The college communities themselves must work the change; and first of all it is necessary that they be brought to see the evil. In the first place gentlemen, in the second place athletes, should be the principle characterizing college sports; they should...