Word: free
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...AMONG the vast multitude of editorial aspirants who are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of college politics, there certainly can be found the required number of men whose intellects are sufficiently free from the trammels of insipidity and general profundity to conduct this highly intelligent organ in a masterly manner. It is about time that these popular fallacies in regard to the qualifications of college editors were swept away." - Cornell...
...Harwood, I beg to submit some explanation of the finances of the University Boat Club. For a series of years the system of expenses has been simply an arrangement of debts, so that the beginning of each year has of necessity presented a call for help to free the club from old obligations rather than make any provision for the wants of the new season. Beginning in 1874 with a debt of some $2,500, the club has been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under the unusual expense...
...promise of theatricals and some little help from graduates. It remains now largely with the gentlemen whose names are still held on the subscription-lists individually to come forward with their payments, and by such help enable us to close the boating season with the club not only free from any debt, but with a balance in its treasury for another year's beginning. This is a position perhaps never held before, but now very easily within its grasp...
...necessarily gives the most unsatisfactory and meagre information in regard to the character of a book. In half the time it ordinarily takes to find the Library boy, one could, if allowed to enter the alcoves, discover whether a book would answer his purpose; while the proposition that a free access to books stimulates reading is proved by the fact that more books have been taken from the shelves containing the new books exposed for examination than from any other collection of the same size in the hall. Students would be no more apt to take books from the alcoves...
...what does this advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them...