Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boys in the Philippines are weeks away from home, even when their discharge is granted. Their surroundings are entirely alien. They are among a people who speak a strange tongue, whose sympathies are not with them and possibly never can be, so great is the difference between the Asiatic and the citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they...
Professor Pierce spoke of the great advantages the Graduate School possesses in having, as its students, men who come with the predominant and absorbing idea of hard work. The varied motives which actuate men in the College are all merged into one serious determination to obtain a thorough knowledge of a particular subject. The scope of the Graduate School is much higher than that of the College, for the standard of admission to the one is the standard of graduation from the other. In closing, Professor Pierce extended a warm welcome to all new-comers...
...followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted by a rivalry that...
...poor football by both sides, with the very occasional relief of good individual play. Several of the men who are suffering from minor injuries, were not allowed to enter the game, and their places were taken by the substitutes. This of course destroyed the team-play to a great extent, but does not excuse poor playing...
Professor Hollis addressed the meeting on the athletic life of the College. He spoke of the great advantages of regular exercise to mind and body. The incoming class, he said, should be mindful of its obligation to come out for the University teams, and to uphold pure athletics...