Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Syracuse University has recently been presented with a watch about three hundred years old. The watch weighs nearly half a pound, troy weight, and keeps very good time...
...classical school has been opened at Indianapolis, Ind., by Messrs. T. L. Sewall and William I. Abbott, both graduates of Harvard. The school is patterned after the best Eastern academies, and has already a good number of students...
...foot of the ladder, and yet unprepared to begin any higher. Granted that there are a considerable number of students who go through college in this manner, and find themselves in a perplexity as to what to do after graduation, this fact cannot be given a general application. A good many go through college badly, and a good many go through it well. We think there is no doubt that those who go through it well, that is, with diligence and method, are superior on their own ground to the men who enter business or a profession without a collegiate...
...instance, the Freshman who has had his leading-strings cut that he might come to college, dubs our University a "hole," either contrasting with the pure and good influences of home the vice and debauchery which he has been told exist here, or because he wishes you to think that he has tasted more deeply of the pleasures of life elsewhere than it is possible to do in Cambridge. Then, again, your man of the world calls it a "hole," - meaning, I fancy, that we live in a provincial, slow, one-horse sort of a place. If you tell this...
...refusal of the Yale Freshmen to row our Freshman class next summer is not to be seriously regretted. The prospect of such a race serves, of course, to draw out the Freshmen able to row, and the existence of a good Freshman crew is in a measure a training-school for future University oars. On the other hand, the Freshman race interferes with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests...