Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects at least we have a decided advantage over our less fortunate fellow-students across the water, in the attitude of our students towards politics and in the settled and enlightened form of our government...
...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
...fourth year of the Harvard Annex has demonstrated that the undertaking may fairly be regarded as no longer an experiment. The success of this form of collegiate education for women is said to be assured. A fund of $67.000, has been obtained by the ladies of the Executive Committee...
...West and East. "In the West there is painful evidence of a fear of passing beyond the bounds, and uttering some sentiment which, really they feel they dare not express. In the literary productions can be seen the lack of general culture. Everything appears in the same stereotyped, orthodox form, indicating a narrow curriculum, which we can almost name in detail. In the personals and locals it is again apparent that, outside of the recitation room the college mind is fed on the most petty details. All this surely declaring how much more the different institutions resemble schools than colleges...
...faculty's inhibition then seems to lie only against all present, active connection with any form of "professionalism" and the so called "sporting world"-an objection which we still hold to be somewhat vague and ill-defined in spite of the arguments to the contrary expressed at this conference. We cannot believe that the alternative is so rigid as Pres. Eliot has urged. Whatever excess and whatever tendendency to professionalism there has been of late years can be corrected without such sweeping changes as the faculty proposes. A middle course is possible to this extent, that we can retrace...