Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion on the subject at Harvard of late years. In the first place, the writer takes the ground that "it should be the faculty's endeavor, so far as possible, to give to the athletes of their college all the advantages that their opponents possess, and to let them feel that, as a body, it has a lively interest in their successes; and if anything in the method of conducting the sport seems undesirable, let it appeal to the athletic men-as man to man-to have it remedied." That is the true solution; and, as Mr. Wendell says, nothing...
...other pieces are "Venus Victa" and "The Message." The former is not as successful an effort as the "Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...want more. The time is not so far off when we shall take on our editorial board a member of the freshman class, provided anyone shall have shown himself proficient enough for the position. There is no reason why any one shall hold back from a feeling that he is unable to select any subject on which to write. The main requisite is for a man to write good, clear, forcible English; the rest will come with practice. As we have said before, editorials, front-page articles on athletics, or sujects of interest to the college, are what we want...
...such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life is so vigorous that scholars feel, all the time, mortally ashamed of doing so little. Life works by certain divine contagion. Facilities, opportunities, rules, standards, traditions-all are good; but life itself is better, and a working faculty will...
...social qualities made him a valued member of the societies with which he was connected,- the A. D. Club, Hasty Pudding Club, Alpha Delta Phi, Glee Club, and Institute of 1770,- and his associates in the Law School will not only miss his presence, but will feel that the class has lost a member of no small ability...