Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Union for the year, last night, the subject of compulsory prayers were fully discussed, but not much new was brought forward. The secret ballot taken before the debate resulted 33 against the present system, 27 in favor of it. After the appointed disputants had opened the debate a ballot was taken resulting 20 in favor and 33 against the system, and the final vote of the house was 12 in favor and 22 against...
...contestants at the inter-collegiate athletic games are the only men who receive benefit from college sports, and it is a subject for congratulation that a college undergraduate who understands the inside workings of the system knows how to express himself in clear and forcible English, has come forward to call attention to the falsity of this opinion...
This temporary set-back for the nine only makes it more necessary for the college to come forward with its enthusiastic support. Let every man who can do so be on hand at the few games we have to play before the championship season begins, in order to show that he takes a personal interest in the success of the nine, and is willing to do his part toward helping it surmount the obstacles which chance throws in its path...
...correspondent comes forward with a "correction," in which he claims that "many candidates for honors are excused from a certain share of the year's work." If this is the case we can only state again that this is more the fault of individual instructors than of the system. Any such privileges are entirely contrary to the spirit of the regulations in regard to the substitution of theses for forensics, and if they are granted it is upon the personal responsibility of the instructor and in spite of the expressed intention of the faculty...
President Gilman complains of the small salaries offered to professors. "The professor today has little to look forward to when he becomes too old to lecture or when he is ill. It is suicidal for our institutions to take second-rate men when first-rate men can be obtained." It is one of the weaknesses of our colleges that they are unable to offer greater inducements to able men to take positions as professors. A man of ability who gives up his business or profession for a professor's chair is often called upon to make a great sacrifice, which...