Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt on the part of the university to gain admission to the intercollegiate base-ball league this year is an earnest of their confidence and ambition in this line, and from all appearances so far it looks as though they were not to be disappointed in their nine. They have twice this season defeated Amherst with ease, and are confident of their ability to do the same to Princeton...
...Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information, and at the same time form a style, those reasons ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will read one new book every week, and will do this for fifty years. This will give...
...Desultory reading, if care is not exercised, will almost invariably induce a looseness of handling in writing and a lack of distinct expression. A close study of the very first masters of English prose is, perhaps, the only means open to students who cannot afford to gain the cultivation offered by the composition courses. Even among standard authors a choice should be made. This is a point, however, which each student must exercise his individual taste. But upon his taste will depend, almost invariably, the character of his style...
...public papers have inferred, that cribbing is present in an alarming degree at Harvard." That "the manliness evident in all departments of college life and the maturity of Harvard men are strong evidences that the vast majority of students would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail...
...cannot believe it. On the contrary, we believe a compulsory service one of the very worst means that could be devised. Those ideals of life which Harvard has given men would have been given them if a compulsory chapel had never been thought of. Moral teaching does not gain any efficacy from compulsion. Yet this the present system quite neglects. Compulsion is continued because of a fear that without it the service could not be carried on, and everyone knows the fact. Is this a moral lesson? If it be true that the only method of giving moral guidance...