Word: happen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college diploma constitutes the goal. There is a too prevalent idea in the minds of young people that education is an affair of routine, that the sum of their duties lies in a general mastery of the text-books provided, promptness in recitations and at lectures, if there happen to be any, and good lessons when called upon to recite. It should be the office of professors and teachers to dispel this erroneous or rather imperfect conception of the means and methods by which an education is to be obtained ; but on the contrary they too often encourage it, because...
...helpful to all; it will doubtless stimulate to methodical study persons who otherwise might find no opportunity for intellectual work, and is thus likely to increase the mission to good schools. Instructors will always be selected for their special qualification, without regard to the institutions with which they happen to be connected...
...collegiate meeting was a miserable failure. The men were started in two rows and by some mishap every man fell except two; two more managed to mount, and the race was finally won by one of those who had fallen, in very slow time. Such a fiasco must not happen next year, yet there will be a greater number of starters than this year, and the only way to run a two mile race will be in two or more heats, and a final heat. But a race run in heats is always a slow affair and of small satisfaction...
...into the society building and lind onc's tennis net gone is about as annoying a thing as can happen to a man, and it happens quite frequently Men who own no net, go into the building and pick out one to suit themselves. Then the owner of the net which took their fancy comes along, and not finding his net is elther obliged to give up play altogether or spend the greater part of the afternoon hunting it up, or else take another man's net, thus handing down the annoyance. Those men who, owning no net of their...
...boat houses. The whole structure is built in the most wretched fashion, having been repaired time and again in a most careless manner with old and worthless lumber. That the accident must have occurred sooner or later, there seems to be no doubt, and that it did not happen at high tide, and was not attended with much more unpleasant circumstances is cause for congratulations to the entire college...