Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...word must be said about the peculiar principles of honor that govern the actions of some men, who damage the boats seriously, and then refuse to pay for the repairs. No organization, however perfect, can present a good financial report when it has men of this class among its members...
...spend a year or two in study here after they have finished their college course, and to give their time either to studies they have been unable to pursue before, or to some subject which they make a specialty. To the former class the college electives offer a good field for work, and they can push their studies in whatever direction they choose; but to the latter there is presented no such chance. They have taken already the electives in their special subject, and now there are no courses open to them in which they can work with profit...
...good fortune to become the owner of a "Bible" of those days, and from it I have selected a few facts that may be interesting to students of the present edition of that work of reference...
...beat at Springfield. Columbia seems no crew to represent American colleges, and the graceful thing would be for her to resign. Cornell protests; Harvard does not, and will not." The N. Y. Country says, "Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin had no rank at home: Cambridge was no University Four, but a volunteer party from...
...others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...