Word: fond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked that "the college is in the educational system to represent the spirit of amateur scholarship. College students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that the is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training...
...pence. If he can't do one thing he does another. If he can't row he tries cricket or Rugby, or association, or hockey, or lacrosse, or track athletics, or something else. He doesn't suck his thumbs or sit and holler "Oxford!" "Oxford!" He is fond of exercise, a couple of hours of it every day and he will have it. The result of this is he is always having or preparing for a game or a tussle of some sort and he never has an attack of nerves when the tussle is going on or after...
Bishop Weller graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1877, and four years later from the Nashotah Theological Seminary. After holding two rectorates in Wisconsin, he was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Fond...
...Weller, Jr., Coadjutor Bishop of Fond-du-Lac, will deliver an address next Friday evening at 7 o'clock in the Noble Room, Phillips Brooks House, under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society. His subject will be announced later...
...from the rain and the chill of the wind; and the older graduates, who have the very first right to the enjoyment of Commencement, would suffer the most. The Stadium is also at no small distance from the Yard, where both on Class Day and Commencement those who are fond of the University and who know it intimately, like to find the centre of interest; it is not a wise suggestion which would separate the exercises of graduation and the centres of University life. Then, too, the journey to and from the Stadium, especially if the weather is not ideal...