Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose in its formation, and that a very laudable one, cannot help being successful. For men interested in a particular study or science, who have passed the elementary stage, there is always an immense advantage to be gained from the association and discussion of ideas in a club of fellow students. The stimulus of such a club is of great value...
...time under Topics of the Day, may be pushed too far, but certainly the series would not have been complete without the charmingly frank and independent confession of a "Shallow Junior, which appears in this number. It is impossible to believe that the author is half so bad a fellow as he would have us believe...
...fact that weak men may become strong athletes, and as an example of the effect of athletic training upon men who were not naturally strong, two cases are cited. One of them is Wallace, Yale's end rush. who according to Mr. Dole was a slight, nervous fellow, hollow-chested and an inveterate smoker. At that time Mr. Dole was in charge of the gymnasium and could compel them to take exercise, and Wallace, becoming interested in his work, took up athletics in earnest and persevered until he gained his present reputation as an athlete...
...vigorous than elsewhere in America. Furthermore the ratio of higher thinkers to high livers is continually rising, as the library and office statistics show. The great populace at the University is apt to slur over moral laxity in a man provided he is affable and kindly, i.e., a 'good fellow.' Yet it is undeniable that the feeling of contempt, for vice and extravagance, gathers strength among all as the four years pass. The influence of the sporting men, of men of fashion, and of the heavy subscribers to athletic games (i. e., of the fast set), which is overwhelming...
...earthly standards, but by ideal ones. And in this is to be found its lessons for us. He then applied the value of ideals in the life of man as an individual, then in his narrowest circle of association-the home; and next in his broader association with his fellow man-the city. He also said that in our very ideals we find a pledge of their reality, and that faith furnishes a still more satisfactory pledge. The last lesson drawn from the text was that with our ideals, the uplifting of our souls, comes the power for their accomplishment...