Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea has gained possession of many worthy people, who have the interest of Harvard at heart, that the system of voluntary recitations pursued here is one which has brought about a great lack of interest in recitations. There is really a widespread opinion that this indifference manifested is worthy of some sort of action. Yet how different are the facts. Thursday, a few minutes before twelve, members of the upper classes on their way to recitation were surprised and dazed at a wonderful sight. Fifteen or twenty men left University at that moment and started on a dead...
Thoughts of some dire calamity at once seized every mind, and more than one dignified senior was about to hurry for the scene of an imagined disaster, when, as a flash from the dying embers of the enthusiastic fire of his freshman days, came this happy thought, and his heart was put at rest. It was Thursday noon and these were freshmen eager for their fill of chemistry and fireworks...
This was rather discouraging for the freshmen, but they did not lose heart, attributing a large part of the score to the wind. At first it seemed as if this was a poor excuse, for the moment the ball was put in play it went down towards the freshmen's goal, and soon eighty-six had the ball down right under eighty-nines' goal posts. Fisk tried for a goal from the field, but he failed to estimate the power of the wind properly, and the attempt was unsuccessful. This gave the freshmen the kick-off at the twenty-five...
Johns Hopkins University consists of five or six brick buildings situated in the heart of the city. It has an endowment fund of $300,000 given by Johns Hopkins in the year 1867. Three of these buildings are laboratories; the chemical, the physical and the biological laboratories. The others contain recitation and lecture rooms and the library. There are no dormitories or dining associations. A student goes to college solely for work, and expects no class systems or class associations. He arranges his own board and lodging in some neighboring private house. In consequence of this arrangement, the faculty...
...they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen can afford to get "rattled" and play a "wretched game," for there will ensue that "decided brace" which always comes at the right moment. So let the freshmen take heart and feel that steady work will soon put them in as good condition for work as their predecessors...