Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Their character and their appearance are as far removed as possible from what is found in the vulgar American whom we all find so disagreeable. And as their manners are easily copied, and their mode of thought is easily burlesqued, nothing is more common than for an American, who is convinced that he is a gentleman, and therefore a different being from the vulgar herd, to transform himself into a burlesque imitation of the blase European. Harvard men are particularly liable to this temptation. Their education is more cosmopolitan - if I may use the word - than any other on this...
...more than was ever paid. Of this amount, one hundred dollars was put down by members of the class of '76, and, consequently, will never be seen by the Club. A careful statement of the financial condition of the boat-club will be found in the article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars...
...talk nothing but shop. I have lately been reminded of this fact, in a rather disagreeable way, by meeting a certain number of college men. As I felt some interest in what was going on in Cambridge, I tried to talk with them upon the subject; and I found them, without exception, to be as one-sided as business men of fifty years' standing. Brown, who was something of an athlete, could tell me a little about the nine, and the crew, and that sort of thing; but there his information ended. Stiggs, a somewhat different character, confined his thoughts...
Tuesday, Jan. 9. - Eleven men were present. The Captain "coached." Four hundred and fifty strokes were pulled. A run and walk was taken on Main Street, where the ground was found in capital condition for this exercise. Distance two miles. The men got better together in their pull, but the time was still poor. The stroke was livelier, as the pressure had been taken off the "Hydraulics." It is evident that the men must pay strict attention to the "coaching...
...scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited by the marks given by instructors, is imperceptible, either for good or evil. And without laying too much stress upon the fact that in the lower part of the class, where abuses are most likely to occur, it is found to be consistent with a considerable gain in percentage in the Senior year, it may at any rate be fairly concluded that the facts do not show that the interests of the less diligent class of students are sacrificed. If our further experience should confirm these negative conclusions, we should...