Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time which it has taken to prepare these rules, we had a right to expect a perfect set; yet several small points indicate a lack of care in adapting them to our uses. Thus in fencing a 34-inch flat-bladed foil is required, though it is stated on good authority that there is hardly a foil of that description in the State. Rule 4 for vaulting refers to vaulting from a mat, a custom which is never practised here...
...course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best hours, for the greatest good of the greatest number; whereas the compiler of this year's schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three, or Saturday morning, evidently with a view to preventing students from taking them. The principle of conveniencing...
THERE need be no discouragement at the prospects of the Nine, and there would be none if the College at large was aware how good the material of the Nine really is. Most of those men who have been nominally training have not so far taken a course calculated to raise the greatest hopes of their success, but we feel confident that they are capable of a great deal. What is needed is good faithful training on the part of the men, and constant attention from the captain in keeping them at work. During the vacation they will have...
...soon loses his class identity; but in after-life it is by this, more than by anything else, that he is remembered by his college contemporaries, so that these contests, which for a time at least draw a sharp line of distinction between the classes, serve a very good purpose...
...hindrance to preference and position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most unsparingly denounced...