Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small sections for the purpose of the most successful teaching, and in this respect it must be admitted that the comparative poverty of most of our colleges puts them behind West Point. But the heiniousness of teaching a scientific subject without the use of any specified text-book we fear will not be fully appreciated by the leading educators and teachers of the land. The careless, off-hand way in which these military gentlemen wave aside the elective system as admittedly inferior and second-rate, is quite refreshing. Harvard surely must blush for her shortcomings...
...fear of professionalism has certainly reduced the faculty to a pitiable position. It may seem professional to try to make a nine self-supporting instead of a burden upon the pockets of men who already have enough demands for subscriptions to answer, but it is a sort of professionalism we can not help approving...
...example, that as the courts were given up by their present holders, they were not to be reassigned. In this way there would be a gradually increasing number of courts on which any members of the association could play, when they had once secured one for their game, without fear of interruption...
...races and the Boylston prize speaking come on the same day. Those who row in the race in the morning can hardly be expected to do themselves justice in the evening's contest, while the other candidates for the prize will have to refrain from cheering their crews. We fear that it is now too late to have the day fixed for the Boylston prize speaking changed, but if it is not some change should unquestionably be made...
...responsibility, especially since the expenses would be prepaid by the players. By this plan the regular players can play in their favorite courts, which are theirs for certain prescribed hours selected by themselves, and the casual or infrequent players may have a chance to play a pleasant game without fear of trespassing. Then we would no longer see the stupid sight of acres of courts empty, but forbidden to a large number of men needing and anxious for the exercise and amusement which these courts might afford them...