Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better condition than the 'Varsity Eight of Columbia. They are an especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will be seen by an article in our local columns. They are the heaviest crew but one that Columbia has ever turned out, and as there is never any discount on the pluck of Columbia men, it appears likely that...
...other fortune should fall to it. It is to be hoped that there will soon appear some wealthy person or persons who will bestow upon this really worthy institution, the Harvard Annex, some good and well equipped buildings and spacious grounds, which shall be at once modestly far from and conveniently near to the university. If it is desirable, and the writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher education of women, surely no better and no more promising means could be taken. A college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with...
...offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone of character,- the fashionable and conventional tone of character, I mean, for I speak not of the recesses of individuals' breasts-should not be far higher than...
...country. The very differences in the natures of the students are an advantageous feature of college life; the variety of human studies, which they afford, is valuable. Not only are there sectional differences, as in our own university we have men from the east, north, south, west, and far west; but also there are those other differences, resulting not so much from locality as from early bringing-up and surroundings. The rich and the poor, the extremely pious and the extremely liberal, the moderatists, the sages and geniuses and the dunces and fools, the sociable and the unsociable, the sensible...
FORENSICS.Junior Forensics will be returned Monday, June 8, from 3.30 to 4.30 P. M., in Sever 11. It is urged that as far as possible the lists of subjects for the Junior Forensic Examination be handed in at the same time and place. Each list must contain four subjects, and must be signed with the name of the student offering it. It is requested that a card of the size of a postal card be used for each list, and that the list be written on one side of the card; it is hoped that the students will regard...