Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that they will still continue to be candidates. They have had as long experience as most of the men who have signed to go, and certainly stand a good chance of being selected. The only drawback is that no Harvard man was chosen to form part of the remainder of the team. Harvard certainly deserved a place on it for the reasons mentioned above. But the men already selected are supposed to be impartial, and we shall have to entrust the chances of our men to their judgment...
Captain Perkins has requested the various class captains to hand him the names of men on their crews who are willing to form a second university eight to row after the class races...
...faculty. Pupils from all parts of the country are receiving instruction in various subjects. Texas, Nova Scotia, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York are some of the sections that furnish students. The announcement of the Correspondence University for January, 1884, is just out in a neat form...
...question of the value of prize essays for the cause of science and higher literature would form an interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there...
...that after graduation they, with as few exceptions, thoroughly regret this neglect. Especially is this true of contributing to the college papers. Leaving out of consideration the benefit to those who later in life take to journalism as a profession, the practice in putting one's thoughts into such form as shall interest others is of incalculable advantage. We may have the materials for the best thinkers of the age in our midst, but they take no trouble to bring out their powers, and so never find they have them. And to any man it is of the greatest importance...