Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made excellent progress, but is inclined to catch too easily, and does not keep his back straight enough. On the whole, however, he has a very good style, and with a little more firmness would show about the best form in the crew...
...rows in a good and easy form, but hardly puts life enough into his stroke; he is also inclined to lower his hands after pulling them in and often catches before number two. The general appearance of his style, however, is one of the best in the boat, as he carries his body and shoulders well erect and with uniform motion...
...engaging in matches all over the country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present...
...colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand apart and form, as it were, an aristocracy of universities, the latter are separating themselves, not only from the true brotherhood of American collegians, but from the sympathies of the lettered public as well." We fear that the Athenoeum is somewhat precipitate in its generalizations. If such a spirit is arising we quite...
...noteworthy that a partial elective system was tried before 1850, but not working satisfactorily the system was abandoned for a few years, but was subsequently adopted again in a more complete form. The development of the elective system and written examinations has gone on side by side, the latter being necessitated to a high degree by the former. When lectures began to take the place of recitations and the courses became larger, it was found necessary to abandon the old plan of marking upon recitations. Thus it will be seen that there has been a decided move in the right...