Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Grant's "Average Man" is to be published in book form within a few weeks...
...mental training? Why is not a certain portion of a college student's day devoted profitably to athletic exercise, not only as a relaxation from the work of the mind, but also as a means of acquiring vigor for future use? The pursuit of athletic exercise in some form or other has always taken a portion of the time of many college students; but not until within the last decade has it been suggested that athletics were not only not a benefit, but were a positive evil. The objections to athletics have been directed chiefly to those which...
...lecturer often wondered that educated men, fully posted on the immensity of the evils of alcohol, should yet remain silent. Learned lectures, replete with statistics, are delivered on the "gigantic evils of the railroad system." Controversy is worn out in the question whether Greek and Latin shall form a necessary part of a liberal education; some even find time to set forth the "littleness, weakness, baseness of base-ball;" hut on that other question concerning a subject which is of immeasurably more importance than all the others combined, we have only silence, and a good deal...
...game which was rather one-sided. At the close of the fifth inning the rain brought the game to a close. The game was tolerably well played by the freshmen who easily led their adversaries in fielding and batting. Wiestling pitched for three innings and was supported in fair form by Varick, Baker and Litchfield, who formed the freshman battery in the fourth and fifth inning. The work for the freshmen was all done by catcher, pitcher and first base, as the Somevilles rarely hit the ball, being puzzled by '87s delivery. The batting of '87 was good...
...Junior forensic due today-Subject: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case. 2. England's Egyptian policy. 3. A criticism of Sumner's "What Social Classes owe to each other." 4. What are the conditions under which a Republican form of Goverment may be expected to do permanent? 5. Have we any knowledge independent of experience? Any of the subjects for the fourth senior forensic may also be taken by juniors...