Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prayer Petition postal cards will probably be sent to the students for signatures. The matter should be heeded by all, for the end to be gained is worth far more than the slight work of signing and mailing a card...
...ideas on the subject that we must give it more than passing notice. The writer says: "A movement for exchanging professors in American colleges has recently been set on foot. Much would undoubtedly be gained by such an arrangement. Not only would the students, in a far greater degree than now, be accustomed to independent judgment; but their views on any subject would be broadened and their tolerance of other people's opinions would be increased by listening to lectures by different men of varying opinions." The exchange of professors, however, the writer concludes, is impracticable. "A constant change...
...remind eighty-nine of the treatment Harvard freshman nines have received in the past, and we sincerely hope that eighty-nine will break the record. Nothing but hard work will enable a freshman nine to defeat a Yale freshman nine, having in prospect a seat on the far-famed fence...
Here lies the trouble with those tales of blighted love. Few or none of us at college have ever loved passionately; nor have many of us lost what we value far more than life. Our cry of bitterterness and woe is hollow, It comes from smiling lips. So such stories at best are but feeble imitations of true work...
...slight most, is that in which a number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer...